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MOSCOW, the Russian Federation (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Today (7th January), the Russian Ministry of Defence reported that the actions of the amphibious dock landing ship of the U.S. Navy - Fort McHenry that has entered the Black Sea, are closely monitored by the patrol ship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet – Pytlivy, learned…

BRUSSELS, Belgium (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Yesterday, 13th December 2018, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met to discuss developments in and around the Sea of Azov as well as the Alliance’s backing for Ukraine. During the meeting it was confirmed that the North Atlantic Alliance will support…

WASHINGTON, the USA (BulgarianMilitary.com) – The Russia-Ukraine tensions led to lots of reactions over the recent days, one of which is the move of the USA to send a warship to the Black Sea as announced yesterday (5th December 2018), learned BulgarianMilitary.com Read more: Kerch Strait Incident Resulted in Court Orders and International…

MOSCOW, the Russian Federation, (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Today, Russian state media reported that the court in the city of Simferopol in Crimea, which was deciding today on a pre-trial measure for the 24 Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia in Kerch Strait on Sunday, has ordered one of them to be under arrest for two months on charges of illegally…

MOSCOW, the Russian Federation (BulgarianMilitary.com) - Yesterday (25 November), around 7am local time, two armored artillery boats (the Berdyansk and the Nikopol) and the Yany Kapu tugboat of the Ukrainian Navy, which were transiting from Odessa on the Black Sea to Mariupol in the Sea of Azov, had been seized by Russia, passing through the Kerch…

MOSCOW, the Russian Federation, (BulgarianMilitary.com) – The Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Ukraine that his country won’t allow the conducting of joint NATO drills in the Sea of Azov, referring to the terms of a bilateral treaty, signed between Moscow and Kiev, under which this demands Russia’s approval. The information was…