Russia gives awards to Su-27 pilots who knocked out a US drone this week, after Western officials slammed the incident as 'unsafe and unprofessional'

• Russia decorated the two pilots whose intercept took down a US Reaper drone over the Black Sea.
• US and EU officials have described the incident as "unsafe and unprofessional" on Russia's part. 
• The incident has frayed relations between the Kremlin and Washington DC.

Russia's Ministry of Defence announced on Friday that it had given awards to the pilots who intercepted a US MQ-9 Reaper drone earlier in the week, resulting in it crashing into the Black Sea.