On the face of it, this exercise has nothing to do with russia s invasion of ukraine, but we re not very far from ukraine s borders at all. the u.s. has been very keen to strengthen the nato alliance and show that it is committed to collective security here in europe. romania directly borders ukraine, where the war is raging both onl land and at sea. the exercise took place not far from snake island, which the russians raided in late february and are occupying. the ukrainians have struck back, managing to hit the flagship moskva cruiser and sink it, and the past few days they released videos of their forces allegedly hitting both a russian landing vessel and a russian chopper unloading troops on snake island. the russians for their part claim to have hit ukrainian strike aircraft and a helicopter. romanian forces telling us they recently had to destroy a sea mine that floated here from ukrainian waters. but the commander in charge of
Has nothing to do with russia s invasion of ukraine, but we re not very far from ukraine s borders at all, and the u.s. has been very keen to strengthen the nato alliance and show that it s committed to security here in europe. romania directly borders ukraine where the war is raging both on land and at sea. the exercise took place not far from snake island, which the russians raided in late february and are occupying. the ukrainians, though, have struck back managing to it had the flagship moskva cruiser and sink it. in the past few days they released video of their forces hitting a russian landing vessel and a russian chopper unloading troops on snake island. the russians have claimed to hit ukrainian strike aircraft and a heli helicopter. romanian forces telling us they recently had to destroy a sea mine that floated here from ukrainian waters. but the commander in charge of this drill says they keep the war next door off their minds