The Americans scouted the situation in the Donbass

A military drone saw the hottest point of the battlefield.

The strategic unmanned aerial vehicle U.S. air force RQ-4A Global Hawk with the call sign UAVGH000 made aerial reconnaissance along the line of differentiation on Donbass. Hours-long flight was performed on July 16 and was monitored Twitter project CivilMilAir.

The scout flew at a height of 16.7 km, the boundary line is not crossed.

Taking into account the possibilities of reconnaissance to a depth of 300 km, the UAV was able to observe the whole occupied territory of Donbass, as well as border regions of Russia.

American machine took off from Sigonella airbase in Sicily. He entered the air space of Ukraine on the Nikolaev area and headed in the direction of Mariupol. After the assignment in the Donbass he went out of Ukrainian airspace to the North of Moldova.
In 2016 the American UAV RQ-4A Global Hawk made four reconnaissance flight over the area of the ATO. This year he was flying over the Donbas region in February and in may.

The armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine began in April 2014. The fighting between the Armed forces of Ukraine and Pro-Russian rebels who control part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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