The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has launched the first multinational naval exercise of 2021 in the Black Sea.
Reports say the exercises have been organised by the Romanian Naval Forces (FNR) and will include the participation of the FNR along with forces from Bulgaria, France, Greece, Spain, the US, and Turkey.
Poseidon 21 is part of NATO's Program of Combined Joint Enhanced Training to enhance security on its south-eastern European flank and ensure a continued presence in the region.
Today's exercises come after last month's USS Porter's movement, a guided-missile destroyer, to join the USS Donald Cook and a refueling ship, the USNS Laramie, in the largest deployment of US naval forces to the Black Sea since 2017.
