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Sea Breeze exercises in the Black Sea go into active phase – Command / GORDON

From July 6, the ships of Ukraine, the USA and other partner countries will continue training in the international waters of the Black Sea. Today in Odessa, the military demonstrated the work of the anti-sabotage unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on board the ship “Balta” and the struggle for the survival of the ship by the crews of the Romanian and Bulgarian ships.

The journalists were shown the armament of the British patrol ship HMS Trent and the American missile destroyer USS Ross.

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“Today we saw the final preparation of the naval component for the active phase of the exercises. Now the so-called preparatory preparation of ships and the final preparations for the fulfillment of the assigned tasks are underway,” Doskato explained the course of the exercises.

Representative of the US 6th Fleet Chris Rowley noted that the scenario being worked out is quite common in the exercises of the naval forces of different countries.

“The training is defensive in nature, we have ship formations, and we are practicing elements of air defense, anti-submarine defense, operations to inspect intruders,” Rowley said.

Context:

Sea Breeze is an annual multinational naval exercise that includes sea, land and air components. They have been jointly conducted by the United States and Ukraine in the Black Sea region since 1997. Sea Breeze Exercise 2021 started on June 28 and will continue until July 10.

This year, as part of the exercises in the Black Sea, record number of participants… The maneuvers will be the largest since 1997, said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Ruslan Khomchak.

Teachings consist of four phases: the arrival of forces and the deployment of command posts, the alignment of forces, the active phase, summing up the results of the exercises and the curtailment of forces. They will pass in Odessa, Ochakov, Dnestrovsky estuary, on the Kinburnskaya spit, Zmeiny and Pervomaisky islands, in the Danube river delta.

Russia urged NATO to abandon the exercises due to “aggressive character” and “encouragement of militaristic sentiments” in Ukraine. When the exercises did begin, the Russian military said that keep an eye on the ships participating in the Sea Breeze.




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