Saber Rattling

The USS Ross, an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer enters the Black Sea.  Washington Times

This will be joined by the French Commandant Birot, the Canadian HMCS Toronto, and the Spanish Almirante Juan de Borbon.  RT

NATO plans to go ahead with the Rapid Trident exercise in western Ukraine as Russia plans to go ahead with a strategic nuclear exercise in Altai.

Meanwhile France suspends delivery of the Vladivostok, a Mistrel Class Helicopter Carrier.

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