The first event in a series of planning conferences ahead of the Ukrainian-American military exercises “Sea Breeze” kicked off its work in Odesa on Monday, December 11.
The Sea Breeze-2017 multinational naval exercise in the Black Sea was a significant step for the transition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the standards of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, press secretary of the Ukrainian defense ministry Dmytro Hutsuliak told a Kyiv briefing Tuesday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.