Solemn conclusion of the Ukrainian-American exercises “sea breeze-2017” in Odessa

ODESSA-KIEV. July 22. UNN. The command of the Ukrainian Navy and the United States summed up the results of the two-week exercise “sea breeze-2017”. This is the correspondent of UNN.

At the closing ceremony, held in the House of officers, the commander of the Navy APU Igor Voronchenko focused on the fact that during the exercise included exercising the multinational headquarters for the planning and conduct of sea operations in accordance with the standards of NATO warships were more than 5 thousand miles, made 850 parachute jumps, realized 60 joint exercises of the coast phase, there were 6 landings Marines, 200 dives divers and 310 aircraft sorties.

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“The learning format was significantly expanded training of officers for participation in “sea breeze-2017″ was held in advance. During the exercises worked out the action of the multinational force during security operations in the Black sea and joint action to lighting and surface conditions, as well as the multinational force prepared to conduct security operations in a crisis region” – said I. Voronchenko.

This year “si the breeze-2017” was held under the slogan “Partnership for peace”. In total, the exercise involved 16 countries, except for Moldova, which in the last day, without explanation, refused to participate. In turn, the American side stressed that the result and level of preparation “sea breeze-2017” satisfied in the future will use all of the exercises in the Black sea.

Recall that the exercise lasted for 2 weeks at the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions and in the waters of the North-Western part of the Black sea .

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