U.S. Navy Destroyer Heads To Black Sea For Pre-Planned Exercises -- Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The USS Truxtun, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, is heading to the Black Sea for what the U.S. military on Thursday described as a "routine" deployment that was scheduled well before the crisis in Ukraine.
The announcement came a day after the Pentagon unveiled plans to put more U.S. fighter jets on a NATO air patrol mission in the Baltics, moving to reassure allies alarmed by Russia's effective seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
Crimea is home to Russia's Black Sea military base in Sevastopol.
The U.S. Navy said in a statement that the Truxtun left Greece on Thursday en route to the Black Sea and would conduct training with Romanian and Bulgarian naval forces.
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My Comment: This is going to raise a few eyebrows in Russia .... but I expect nothing to come out of it.
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