Russia Says NATO Will Fail In Testing Its Black Sea Borders

A Russian Border Guard vessel fires warning shots in the wake of the United Kingdom Royal Navy's HMS Defender during a June 23 encounter in the Black Sea. The incident took place as the U.K. joined the U.S. and other NATO members and partners for the annual, multilateral Exercise Sea Breeze. © Russian Federal Security Service 

Newsweek: Russia Says U.S., Allies 'Doomed to Failure' if They Try to Test Black Sea Borders 

Russia has warned that the United States and Western allies would not succeed if they sought to test the country's willingness to defend the borders it claims amid heightened tensions accompanying drills conducted by NATO and partnered forces in the Black Sea. 

Russian officials have rallied against Exercise Sea Breeze, an annual training co-hosted by the U.S. and Ukraine alongside a largest-ever array this year of some 30 other countries in the Black Sea. 

While the drills happen every year, recent weeks have witnessed an uptick in Russian air and sea interceptions of Western powers, including an incident late last month in which Russian maritime border guards fired warning shots to ward off a U.K. destroyer as the war games began.  

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Update: Russian Embassy in the US: West's Attempts to Test Black Sea Borders 'Doomed to Failure' (Sputnik) 

WNU Editor: NATO's Black Sea exercises that is bringing this Kremlin ire have ended .... Sea Breeze-2021 multinational exercise completed (Kyiv Post).