But the US Air Force categorically denies the incident, saying in a statement that deconfliction phone line transcripts show Russia never called about the incident and that
Coalition flight logs have no record of any US cross overs without informing Russia first.
«According to our
flight logs for Nov 23, 2017, this alleged incident did not take place, nor has there been any instance where a
Coalition aircraft crossed the river without first deconflicting with the Russians via the deconfliction phone line set up for this purpose.