For the first time in eight years, the Naval Forces of Ukraine and the Russian Black Sea fleet decided to resume their full-scale military exercises. Prior to this, last year there was an attempt of common military exercises, but only in the format of the command and headquarters cooperation. This time, warships, aircraft, marine engineering, Marine Corps of both Navies will participate in full, reports Deutsche Welle. The military will train on the model of an international peacekeeping operation in a crisis region. The parties set a goal to practice the Joint Staff actions during the planning of a peacekeeping operation and the management of forces in a peacekeeping operation. Besides, they will hone the coherence of actions of the Ukrainian Navy marines and the Russian Black Sea fleet while landing on unequipped coast, and practice joint actions of the search and rescue forces. Read the story here.
