Ships from non-Black Sea NATO countries will return to the Black Sea - Alliance Advisor
NATO ships belonging to states outside the region that were withdrawn from the Black Sea before the start of the Northern Military War will return.
This was stated by Advisor to the Commander of the NATO Naval Command James Bergeron at the Balkan-Black Sea Security Forum, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Bergeron did not say exactly when this might happen.
“Will ships of non-religious allies return to the Black Sea? It is clear that they will return. We never had any intention of staying there (in the Mediterranean) forever - we will return when it is strategically right. There are interesting advantages to the current situation. As I already said, we achieved a high level of striking power and never lost it,” he said.
“But the Russians on the other hand watched as their Mediterranean squadron in Tartus (Russian navy base in a Syrian port - author) withered on the vine because they did not want to send them back to the Black Sea. Essentially, their presence in the Mediterranean has been significantly weakened,” Bergeron said.
NATO ships from non-Black Sea countries will return to the Black Sea, says Alliance adviser