The website "Flightradar24" reported that the United States has ceased flights of its Global Hawk strategic drones over the Black Sea following the incident involving an American Reaper drone. According to the site's data, the last flight of a Global Hawk drone over the Black Sea, opposite the coast of Crimea, was on March 21. Since then, these drones stationed in Sicily have not entered the airspace over the Black Sea. Concurrently, prior to this, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, these drones had conducted an average of eight to ten reconnaissance missions monthly over the marine area off Crimea.
Available information indicates that from March 21 to April 20, Global Hawk drones made only three flights from a Sicilian airbase, all of which remained within Romanian airspace over 400 kilometers away from Crimea, thus outside the radar coverage area of these drones, which can receive terrain radar images at a maximum range of 200 kilometers.
In a related statement, a source informed "Novosti" that "the last flight of an American Global Hawk drone over the Black Sea near Crimea was on March 21." The source added, "Following the incident with the American Reaper drone, which fell into the Black Sea waters on April 14, only two more flights of Global Hawk drones were conducted over the Black Sea, both at least 140 kilometers away from the southern coast of Crimea."
