World peace hangs in the balance as the war in Ukraine appears to be escalating and moving into the next arena. Moscow is trying in the most official way to involve the US in the war, talking about the “physical” presence of an American ship, during a Ukrainian attack on a Russian ship in Black Sea.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian attack on the Priazovye ship was monitored by an American RQ-4B Global Hawk drone, emphasizing that it is not the first time, as similar vessels had been detected in previous attacks by the Ukrainians.

The American Pentagon and the State Department have not reacted to the Russian claims, while the specific attack has not been admitted by Kiev either.

Watch the video provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense of the Black Sea attack:

“Today, at approximately 13:30 Moscow time, Ukrainian armed formations made an unsuccessful attempt with six high-speed unmanned sea vessels to attack the Black Sea Fleet’s Priazovye ship, which was on a mission to monitor the situation and provide security on the routes of Turkish Stream and Blue Stream natural gas pipelines in the southeastern part of the Black Sea. While repelling the attack, all vessels were destroyed by the standard weapons of the Russian warship 300 km southeast of Sevastopol,” the ministry said in a statement.

The Black Sea Fleet’s Priazovye ship continues to carry out missions assigned to it after Ukraine’s attempted attack, with no casualties reported among Russian personnel, the ministry said. “There are no victims. The ship has not been damaged. The Priazovye ship of the Black Sea Fleet continues to carry out its assigned missions,” the statement said.

“A US RQ-4B Global Hawk strategic remote-controlled surveillance aircraft carried out reconnaissance in the airspace over the central part of the Black Sea during the attempted attack on Ukraine, as in other previous cases,” the Russian ministry said.