U.S. releases video showing Russian fighter jet intercepting American drone over Black Sea

The U.S. military has released newly declassified video it says shows a Russian fighter jet harassing and colliding with an American drone over the Black Sea.

The footage, released Thursday morning by U.S. European Command and filmed from the drone's on-board camera, shows a Russian Su-27 jet conducting what the U.S. calls an "unsafe/unprofessional intercept of a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 in international airspace" earlier this week.

U.S. officials earlier told NBC News that Kremlin leadership had approved the aggressive actions of the Russian jets in an apparent effort to throw the drone off...