A four-day exercise to be conducted by South Korea and the United States starting July 25 off the eastern seas of the Korean Peninsula is intended to send North Korea a message of combined deterrence, the militaries of the two governments announced.
Turkey has decided to participate in an exercise planned to take place in Armenia by NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center, even though Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic relations.
Two-day military exercises involving NATO fighter jets will begin on Tuesday at the Adazi training around outside Riga, the mixnews.lv website has said, quoting NATO Air Force officer Miroslav Svoboda.
Fifteen Ukrainian, U.S. and Turkish warships sailed out of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa on Sunday to begin the active phase of the Sea Breeze 2010 exercises, the Ukrainian UNIAN news agency reported.