Glasgow hosts large NATO-Ukraine joint naval exercise, ukdefencejournal.org.uk

A large fleet of NATO and Ukrainian warships arrived in Glasgow ahead of the 22nd iteration of Exercise Sea Breeze.

The annual multinational maritime exercise, named Alba Breeze this year, is traditionally hosted in the Black Sea by the US Sixth Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy. Still, recent geopolitical developments have shifted the venue to Glasgow. […]

NATO warships usually patrol the Black Sea for approximately two-thirds of the year, but current circumstances make this impossible. Turkey closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to all warships following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, affecting even those countries bordering the Black Sea. However, the NATO-Ukraine joint exercise continues undeterred, with Glasgow as its new backdrop. Läs artikel