A joint minesweeping task force from the Bulgarian and Romanian navies has begun operating in the Black Sea along Ukraine’s recently established commercial shipping lane, Andriy Klymenko, head of the Institute for Strategic Black Sea Studies and Editor-in-Chief of BlackSeaNews, said in a Facebook post on Oct. 19.
The Romanian Naval Forces, with the naval dredger 30 Sublieutenant Alexandru Axente and staff officers, participate, between October 13 and 22, in the Breeze 23.