The United States has canceled this week’s planned deployment of two warships to the Black Sea, Turkish officials said on April 14, amid high tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Turkish diplomatic sources said the passage of the first ship through the Bosphorus due on Wednesday did not take place.
Anadolu state news agency said both deployments, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, have been canceled with Ankara not yet informed of any possible rescheduling....aa
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- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has relayed that the United States has cancelled the passage of its warships to the Black Sea.
“We
were verbally told that the passage of the ships was cancelled.
However, if they change their mind, they have three more days to use the
previous notification and send the ships – the notification will still
be valid. If the ships do not pass within three days, then they will
again need to make a notification 15 days before the expected passage,”
Cavusoglu said.According to him, recently the United States sent 14
notifications about the passage of its warships to the Black Sea, of
which five were later cancelled....sputnik
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ReplyDeleteThe United States abruptly canceled the deployment of a pair of Tomahawk-armed Arleigh Burke-class destroyers into the Black Sea late Wednesday, several days after announcing plans to sail them into the body of water. The deployment was canceled after Russia’s Black Sea Fleet started large-scale drills involving Kalibr-armed warships.
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