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