& nbsp; In the & nbsp; waters of the Black Sea, the ships of the Ukrainian Navy took part in & nbsp; PASSEX exercises with the Romanian Navy & nbsp; ships USA. The aircraft of the US Navy was also involved & nbsp; & mdash; patrol aircraft P-8 & ldquo; Poseidon & rdquo; and & nbsp; helicopter & raquo;, & nbsp; & mdash; said in & nbsp; the message.
It is specified that the flagship of the US Sixth Fleet Mount Whitney took part in the exercise. patrol boat 'Slavyansk' and & nbsp; landing ship Yuri Olefirenko, reported in the & nbsp; department.
At the & nbsp; currently in the Black Sea there are US ships in & nbsp; as part of the destroyer Porter, the Mount Whitney ship and & nbsp; tanker John Lenthall, which maneuvers within the & nbsp; exercise of the US Sixth Fleet and & nbsp; Naval Strike Force and NATO Support Forces, which started on & nbsp; October 30.
USS Mount Whitney made a stop in & nbsp; Istanbul on November 1 & nbsp;. However, not all residents of the city were happy with the visit of the Americans. So, the Turkish communists hung on & nbsp; one of the & nbsp; bridges a banner at once in & nbsp; two languages appeal to the & nbsp; crew: Yankee, go & nbsp; home (“ Yankee, go home. '' & Mdash; & nbsp; Ed.).
November 8 & nbsp; three US ships arrived at the & nbsp; Georgian port of Batumi. On November 10 & nbsp; they left Georgia and & nbsp; November 12 & nbsp; arrived at the & nbsp; Romanian port of Constance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin at a & nbsp; meeting in & nbsp; Sochi on & nbsp; defense topics on November 1 & nbsp; spoke about & nbsp; US warships. A US Navy ship that entered the Black Sea can be seen with binoculars or a sight of defense equipment, & nbsp; he said.