Ukraine and Turkey have launched a joint naval exercise in the Black Sea, amid both countries’ deteriorating relationship with Russia, Ukraine’s armed forces reported on Thursday.
Ukraine is currently fighting a separatist insurgency in its eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, that it maintains is backed by the Russian armed forces. Meanwhile, Turkey has become the subject of Russian trade sanctions and harsh rhetoric from the Kremlin since shooting down a Russian air force jet it accused of crossing over into its airspace in November 2015.
Turkey’s TCG Salihreis frigate and TCG Bartin corvette vessels were joined by the Ukrainian …read more
Source: Newsweek
