The Russian Embassy in Washington issued a statement calling on NATO to refrain from holding military drills in the Black Sea. “We call on the US and its allies to stop military operations in the Black Sea,” the embassy said in a Twitter post. “Every problem emerging in the region can be resolved by the littoral states themselves without ‘imposing’ help from the outside.”
“The scale and obviously aggressive nature of the military drills SeaBreeze in no way match the real security needs in the Black Sea region,” the embassy said, adding that those exercises “increase risks of unintended incidents” and “inspire militaristic ambitions in Kiev.”
