US spy plane enters Black Sea amid Russian-Ukraine tensions – reports

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US spy plane enters Black Sea amid Russian-Ukraine tensions – reports
By News Desk - 2018-11-26



A Crete-based US spy plane entered the Black Sea area on Monday morning after a standoff between Ukraine and Russia over a strait that separates it from the Sea of Azov, the Ukrainian military portal reported.

The Boeing RC-135V reconnaissance plane left the US naval base at Souda Bay on Crete at 05:50 GMT and headed east, the portal said.

This comes after Russia detained three Ukrainian naval vessels on 25 November for entering its territorial waters on their way from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, a shallow internal sea the two countries share.

Read more at:  https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-spy-plane-enters-black-sea-amid-russian-ukraine-tensions-reports/