MOSCOW: Moscow has recovered the black box of the Russian jet downed by Turkey and will analyze it with foreign specialists, President Vladimir Putin has said.

“I ask you not to open it for the time being,” Putin told Sergei Shoigu at a meeting where the defense minister received the black box, Russian news agencies reported. “Open it only together with foreign experts, carefully determine everything.”

Moscow and Ankara are at loggerheads over the downing of a Russian jet on Turkey’s border with Syria, sparking fury and economic sanctions from the Kremlin.

British Premier David Cameron’s office said the two leaders had “agreed that it was important to wait for the investigation to establish what had happened and the prime minister said he would consider President Putin’s request to send British experts to assist the investigation.”

Shoigu said the territory where the Russian jet was shot down had been “liberated” by Syrian special forces, allowing them to recover the black box from what had been a rebel-held area.

Putin said an analysis of the black box would help determine the downed jet’s flight path and position, which Ankara and Moscow have furiously disagreed upon.