Happening now, the White House is slamming Russia as reckless after a U.S. drone aircraft

was forced down by a Russian fighter jet in international airspace over the Black Sea.

It's a potentially very dangerous escalation at a critical moment in Russia's war against Ukraine.

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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Flitzer, you're in the situation room. Let's get right to the very dramatic developments over the Black Sea today, a Russian fighter

jet forcing down a US drone during an

incident the US Air Force is calling reckless and unprofessional.

CNN Pentagon correspondent Orrin Lieberman is joining us right now.

Orrin, so how did all of this unfold?

And how are our U.S. officials responding tonight?

This all plays out early Tuesday morning over international waters over the Black Sea where a US Air Force MQ9 drone,

a spy or surveillance drone, was operating as we've seen it do since the beginning of this war

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