![]() drone that Vladimir Putin’s eager eagles - as his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, used to call his pilots - caused to crash was remotely piloted. bombers over the Baltic, which the Kremlin claimed were flying toward Russia, disengaged. The Russian SU-45 tailing the two venerable U.S. Fortunately, there were no casualties in either incident. since the invasion of Ukraine began, Russian jets playing chicken with an unmanned American surveillance drone over the Black Sea caused it to crash. ![]() Just a week before that aerial tangle, in the first known military encounter between Russia and the U.S. Two weeks before the ceremony, a Russian jet intercepted two U.S. and Russia is heating up in the skies overlooking the same foam-specked waves in which the U.S. “This commemoration is particularly relevant in light of our renewed confrontation with authoritarianism,” he told me. This year’s commemoration took place on Thursday, featuring a speech by Christopher Robinson, the new American ambassador. Navy Privateer reconnaissance aircraft PB4Y-2, flight 59645, which was shot down by four Soviet jets on April 8, 1950. ambassador to Riga, along with representatives of the Latvian government and military, presides over a solemn ceremony on the beach promenade of Liepāja, a coastal city overlooking the Baltic Sea, to honor the 10-man crew of the U.S. once again have daggers drawn, their story is one we cannot afford to forget. ![]() Most likely you have never heard about them. Ten American airmen on a secret - and well-disguised - mission disappeared, never to be heard from again. Seventy-three years ago this week, the first lethal clash of the Cold War lit up the skies over the Baltic Sea.
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