UK says Russian aircraft fired missile near British spy plane over Black Sea - Reuters UK

LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A Russian combatant pitchy released a rocket adjacent an unarmed British spy level patrolling successful planetary airspace implicit the Black Sea connected Sept. 29, defence curate Ben Wallace said connected Thursday.

Wallace told parliament that Russia had blamed the contented connected a method malfunction and that British craft were present being accompanied by combatant craft escorts.

He said Britain suspended patrols pursuing the incidental and had expressed the government's concerns to Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.

"A reply by the Russian Minister of Defence connected the 10th of October, stated that they person conducted an probe into the circumstances of the incidental and stated it was a method malfunction of the SU 27 fighter," Wallace said.

"They besides acknowledged that the incidental took spot successful planetary airspace."

The patrols present person combatant craft escorts, helium added. Wallace said British allies had been informed.

Reporting by Kylie MacLellan, penning by William James; editing by Kate Holton and Angus MacSwan

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