Russia plans to recover wreckage of US drone downed over Black Sea

US says any recovery operation in such deep water would be difficult and unlikely to yield useful intelligence

Moscow has said it intends to recover the wreckage of a US drone brought down on Tuesday following an interception by Russian fighter jets, but US officials said the debris could be in such deep water that recovery is impossible, and would have no real intelligence value.

I don't know if we can recover [it] or not, but we will certainly have to do that, and we will deal with it," said Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's security council, on Wednesday. I certainly hope for success."