Black Sea

Kremlin Vows The Black Sea Will Never Be “NATO’s Sea” Amid Renewed Calls For Ukraine’s NATO Membership To Be Fast-Tracked

The former, briefly lived, UK prime minister, Lizz Truss, renewed calls this week for Ukraine’s NATO membership to be fast-tracked. “I also believe we should fast-track Ukraine’s membership of NATO. We should have done it years ago, but the best time to do it will be now,” Truss told listeners during a speech at a Heritage Foundation event.

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Russia Threatens “Countermeasures” – U.S. Drone Flight Paths Moved Further Away From Crimea

The Pentagon announced this week that it intends to continue patrolling international territory despite Moscow putting the U.S. on notice after an incident last week in which an American MQ-9 Reaper drone was intercepted and then subsequently crashed into the Black Sea. The Kremlin has announced that it has closed some of the airspace over the Black Sea as part of a ‘special operation’ taking place in Ukraine.

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