Navy Commander: Sea Breeze permits to gain experience of response to challenges and threats to regional stability and security

posted 24 May 2016 12:30

“Cooperation of military Navy men during the Sea Breeze exercise enhances confidence, encourages partnership, provides opportunity to gain experience of response to challenges and threats to regional stability and security,Lt. Gen. Ihor Voronchenko, Acting Navy Commander, said during the Sea Breeze 2016 Final Planning Conference in Odesa, May 24.

He also stressed the importance of continuation of international cooperation and relationship for the Ukrainian Navy. He expressed certitude that the exercise participants would implement the experience gained during the operations in the east of Ukraine.

It should be noted Sea Breeze 2016 Final Planning Conference kicked off in Odesa on May 23. The participants will specify the maneuvers strength, agree the phases and main elements of exercise, develop the scheduled actions table, complete the elaboration of the scenario and exercise plan, deployment schedule and principal aspects of multinational peacekeeping operation in the crisis region.

The representatives of the Main Directorate of Military Cooperation and Peacekeeping Operations of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, services of Armed Forces of Ukraine, State Frontier Service of Ukraine, National Guard of Ukraine, state authorities and law enforcement services take part in it.