NATO flotilla enters Black Sea for training amid Ukraine crisis


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A NATO flotilla arrived in the Black Sea on Wednesday to train with ships from the Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish navies, the U.S.-led Western alliance said.

Tensions in the Black Sea region are running high because of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russia's annexation of the country's Crimea Peninsula last year.

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