is reporting on NATO\u2019s \u201cprovocations\u201d incurred by Operation Sea Breeze, an annual multinational navel exercise held in the Black Sea. Hosted by the Ukraine, the exercise began Monday and will continue through 12 September. <\/span><\/p>\nThis year\u2019s Sea Breeze is the largest yet, with up to 2500 personnel from 17 countries participating. The US will contribute 1000 sailors and Marines, 5 warships, various aircraft and other vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Ukrainian Defense Ministry press service reported that the exercise is aimed at \u201cdrilling a multinational security operation in a crisis region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe maneuvers are to enhance confidence and security in the region, improve interoperability between the naval force of Ukraine and NATO and partner countries,\u201d the ministry said.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn addition, other NATO member states will send\u00a0troops and military equipment, 6 ships, 3 submarines, 6 aircraft and 10 wheeled vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\nUS Naval Forces Europe-Africa, US 6th Fleet Command reported that \u201cMaritime forces from 11 maritime nations will begin the US-Ukraine co-hosted multinational maritime exercise Sea Breeze 2015 in Odessa, Ukraine, and the Black Sea, Aug. 31. Sea Breeze, now in its 14th iteration, is an annual exercise held in the Black Sea which seeks to enhance interoperability and strengthen regional security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to NATO sources, participating nations include Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The exercise will include maritime interdiction operations, antisubmarine warfare, and defense against swarm tactics. Other skills to be exercised include air defense, damage control, and C-SAR.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSwatting down Nork-like Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs) with Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) systems, and now the largest Sea Breeze exercise in history is being conducted in Russia\u2019s pond. Messaging, anyone?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Novorussia Today\u00a0is reporting on NATO\u2019s \u201cprovocations\u201d incurred by Operation Sea Breeze, an annual multinational navel exercise … NATO \u201cOperation Sea Breeze\u201d<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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