The same photograph - albeit in a wider crop - had previously appeared in a two-year-old report of a spy drone being shot down over Yemen in 2017
Having been involved in FONOPS and other military flights near coastal countries in the med and ME during the 80’s and early 90’s, I can tell you that we go to great lengths to not cross boundaries so as to be at fault if someone tries to pop you with a missile. The equivalent of GPS and moving maps of the day had lines of demarcation clearly drawn so you could see where you were and where others were so as to not cross into (pick one - Libyan, Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian, etc) enemy territory.