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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rare Pentagon move came a day after US and Russian defence ministers and military chiefs held phone conversations over the incident, in which the </span><a href=\"https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?search=all%3AL1N35N2CG&linkedFromStory=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MQ-9 Reaper</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> drone crashed into the Black Sea while on a reconnaissance mission in international airspace.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the declassified, roughly 40-second </span><a href=\"https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?search=all%3AL1N35O0RK&linkedFromStory=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Russian Su-27 fighter jet comes very close to the drone and dumps liquid near it, in what US officials say was an apparent effort to damage the American aircraft as it flew over the Black Sea.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also shows the loss of the video feed after a second pass by a Russian jet, which the Pentagon says resulted from its collision with the drone. 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