Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., leaves the State Department on Tuesday. He echoed earlier assertions from the Russian Defense Ministry, which said it had scrambled planes to intercept the drone after it intruded into an area near Crimea that Moscow had declared off limits for the purposes of what it calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine. He insisted that the Kremlin's fighter jets didn’t hit the American drone or use their weapons. Speaking after his meeting at the State Department, Anatoly Antonov said: "We perceive any actions involving the use of American weapons and military equipment as openly hostile," according to a statement published on the embassy's Telegram on Wednesday. said that Washington should "refrain from further speculations in the media landscape and stop making sorties near the Russian borders."
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