Ships in the General process of bilateral exercises of the armed forces of Ukraine and the U.S. Navy Sea Breeze-2014 will not go in Ukrainian ports, because the plan does not envisage the ground part of the exercise, said the Commissioner of the information centre of the Council of national security and defense Vladimir Field at a press conference on Sunday.
Exercises will begin on the first day of the week in the North-Western Black sea.
Field added that the aim of the exercise is to develop the script for international operations by establishing and ensuring the safety of navigation in a crisis area. According to him, the Exercises will be held in accordance with the program of bilateral cooperation between the defense ministries of Ukraine and the USA.
in accordance with the plan for the current year the exercise was conducted in the spirit of Partnership for peace, for this reason, to participate in them by tradition and invited other countries, such as Spain, Canada, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Norway, Sweden and France.
Exercises Sea Breeze for the first time were held in 1997.
Destroyer naval forces of the USA Ross entered the Black sea on 3 September. Until September 3, in the area of the black sea was one ship NATO reconnaissance ship of the French Navy Dupuy de Lome.
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