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To Odessa for the first time since early 2021 ships of the North Atlantic Alliance entered… This is NATO’s second mine action group, SNMCMG2.
According to “Dumskaya,” he began mooring at the berths at 11:00 on March 10. A total of four ships arrived at the port.
The flagship of the group is the Turkish A577 TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa training ship. It also included the Turkish M267 TCG Ayvalik (M267), the Spanish TSPS Tajo (M36) and the Romanian ROS Lt Lupu Dinescu (25).
The detachment commander is Captain 1st Rank Yusuf Karagyulle. It’s known that the command staff of the NATO ship group will meet with representatives of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A group of SNMCMG2 NATO ships entered the Black Sea on February 25. Before her, in 2021, the American destroyers of the type “Arleigh Burke” – DDG75 Donald Cook, DDG78 Porter and the military tanker Laramie entered its waters.
These ships carried out resupply and patrol exercises on the fly, then left the Black Sea.
Recall that in January 2021, NATO troops conducted large-scale military training in the Black Sea in order to increase the compatibility of the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance and its allies. It passed through the air, the sea and cyberspace.
And at the end of 2020, large-scale exercises of the Ukrainian Navy were carried out. Large vessels and several ships participated in them.
As OBOZREVATEL reported, on January 31, a Russian Armed Forces Su-24 bomber flew low over the US warship Donald Cook, which was in neutral waters of the Black Sea.
