UKRAINIAN, NATO WARSHIPS IN JOINT EXERCISES

. The most battleworthy ships of Ukraine’s nascent navy, the Hetman Sahaydachny and the Kostyantyn Olshansky, exercised in the central Mediterranean jointly with a U.S. naval task force and with French and Italian naval aviation. The two Ukrainian ships are headed for home from a joint exercise with the U.S. navy at the Norfolk, Virginia base. They stopped en route and also exercised at the British naval base in Gibraltar. (Interfax-Ukraine, October 9)

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