As the U.S. special operations forces were invited this year to participate in Sea Breeze-2017, the Ukrainian-U.S. military exercise in southern Ukraine, the U.S. Special Operations Command Europe's Naval Special Warfare Command operators were “eager to sign up for the mission,” the U.S. Department of Defense reports.
A decision has been made to transfer to the Ukrainian Navy U.S. military patrol boats following Sea Breeze-2017 military exercise, Rear Admiral of the Ukrainian Navy Andriy Tarasov has told Krym.Realii.
U.S. warships and a team of elite Navy Seals have arrived in the Black Sea to embark on international 12-day war games in Ukraine, The Express reports.
Sea Breeze 2017 international naval exercise is starting today, July 10, the press service of the Ukrainian Navy has told UNIAN.
Large-scale Ukrainian-American military exercises Sea Breeze-2017 are to be held in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, and in the northwestern part of the Black Sea in July, in accordance with NATO standards, press secretary of Ukraine's Defense Ministry Maksym Prauta told a briefing, according to an UNIAN correspondent.