
NATO will “continue to assess its presence in the Black Sea region”, where the alliance’s ships are carrying out routine patrols and drills, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu was quoted by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency as saying. She said that “there is already a lot of NATO in the Black Sea” ...

The Kremlin has sharply criticized the Ukrainian president’s plea for NATO to deploy naval ships to the Sea of Azov amid a standoff with Russia. “The question itself, of course, is aimed at further provoking tensions, at continuing the provocative line, which is based on the pre-electoral political interests of ...