More NATO Ships Enter Black Sea While Tensions With Russia Simmer

ITS Fasan, SNMG2 flagship cross under Istanbul strait on July 1, 2021. NATO Photo

The flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 entered the Black Sea on Thursday with two more alliance warships set to join the Sea Breeze exercises that started earlier this week, NATO announced.

Frigate ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591) passed through the Bosphorus headed for the Black Sea with a Turkish frigate and will join with a Romanian warship, according to ship spotters in Turkey.

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