Senator Lindsey Graham called for Biden to ‘hold Russia accountable’ for downing a US drone and threatened to shoot Putin‘s war planes if they approach American assets even over international waters.

South Carolina GOP Senator Graham said the US should gun down Russian warplanes that approach an American asset in the airways over international waters after two Russian fighter jet pilots had forced down an unnamed US aerial vehicle (UAV) over the Black Sea yesterday, March 14.

According to military officials, the Russian pilots repeatedly dumped fuel onto the drone and flew in front of it in a ‘reckless’ and ‘professional’ manner before a collision caused the American UAV to crash.

The senator told Fox News host Seam Hannity that the US should hold Russia accountable and warned the Kremlin: ‘If you ever get near another US asset flying in international waters, your airplane will be shot down’, according to Newsweek.

He criticised the Biden administration and said the president was acting like ‘a deer in the headlights’ in the face of foreign threats like Russia.