The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday March 17th, 2023
Downed US drone off Crimea heighten tensions – Danger of all out war breaking out by accident by Murray Hunter
A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper Surveillance UAV or drone was brought down last Tuesday, reportedly only 60 kms southeast of the Crimean port of Sevastopol.
The US and other NATO countries have been flying spy missions just outside Russian airspace over the last year, to assist Ukrainian military forces with intelligence and targeting information.
The US Pentagon claims the incident occurred within international airspace, over the Black Sea, while Russian authorities claim the drone was flying inside restricted airspace established for the ‘special military operations’.
Reports say two Russian SU-27s intercepted the MQ-9 Reaper, flying manoeuvres around the drone, in what the US military claimed was “reckless, environmentally unsound, and unprofessional manner”. After these manoeuvres, where one SU-27 clipped the propeller of the drone, the other SU-27 fly over the top of the drone, and dumped petrol over it, making the UAV lose control and crash into the sea below.
The head of the US European Command (EUCOM) General James Hecker said, the US routinely flies drones over international airspace to ‘bolster collective European defence and security, and support allied power, and US national objectives’. Hecker further stated the flights would continue, and called on the Russians ‘to conduct themselves professionally and safely’.
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Saskatchewan Sky #poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“Saskatchewan
sky,
just a preview of love,
chip off
an edge of
prairie
chip an edge off
winter-“
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #55 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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