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i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm bianna golodryga. in moments the nation's top defense officials are expected to take reporters' questions, this after the pentagon says russia downed an american drone over the black sea. a high-level russian official said russia will try to retrieve the wreckage, while white house officials say finding the debris may be impossible. the u.s. military said on tuesday a russian jet dumped fuel on the unmanned u.s. aircraft which it says was doing routine operations in international air space. >> the russian jet then hit the propeller of the reaper, forc...

Essentially go recover or collect the drone from the black sea, although even they acknowledge they might not be able to. there are no u.s. navy assets in the black sea that would be able to carry out that mission so to protect the information, to protect the sensitive software on the drone, which is the most sensitive part of this, the u.s. was able to remotely wipe it after the incident, after that interception, bianna and victor. >> oren liebermann, thank you. we will talk to you after this news conference. let's bring in cnn anchor and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto and ...

The point that i would make is if he does make a call to reposition at some point in time, it doesn't mean that the war is lost. it may mean, and probably will mean, that he is positioning himself to maintain advantage. and so i think that's the real key there, but whether or not he stays there or how long they stay there, that's president zelenskyy's call and not -- you know, not anybody else's. and, again, our goal is to make sure that we're supporting him in whatever decision -- battlefield decision he's going to make. by the way, we're generating combat power to a degree that we believe th...

When the two hold a press conference at the pentagon. >> there's great interest on any information that that drone would contain. what is the military saying it's doing to protect u.s. information from that drone getting into wrong hands? >> reporter: of course, we first heard from john kirby, the strategic communications coordinator for the national security council that the u.s. had taken steps to protect the equities on that drone. we now have a far better sense what have exactly that means to make sure that sensitive information doesn't falling into russian hands or other hands. according ...