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Title: The US Navy is back in the Black Sea, sending a message to Moscow
Post by: rangerrebew on January 08, 2019, 01:40:14 pm

The US Navy is back in the Black Sea, sending a message to Moscow
By: Mark D. Faram   19 hours ago
 

The U.S. Navy’s dock landing ship Fort McHenry pulled into the Romanian port of Constanta on Monday for what officials term a “routine port visit” after transiting the Dardanelles Strait from the Mediterranean Sea the day before.

That makes Fort McHenry the first American warship to enter the Eastern European waterway since Russia seized three Ukrainian vessels on Nov. 25 in the Kerch Strait.

“We routinely operate in the Black Sea consistent with international law and the Montreux Convention and will continue to do so,” said Navy 6th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Kyle Raines.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/07/the-us-navy-is-back-in-the-black-sea-sending-a-message-to-moscow/ (https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/07/the-us-navy-is-back-in-the-black-sea-sending-a-message-to-moscow/)