Large-scale military exercises Sea Shield 2023 (“Sea Shield – 2023”) with the participation of over 3,000 military personnel from 12 countries, as well as more than 30 ships, will start in Romania on Monday. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Radio Romania.
Sea Shield 2023 is a comprehensive concept for training allied forces and proposed by Romania at the NATO summit in Warsaw in 2016 to strengthen security measures on the southeastern European flank.
“More than 3,000 soldiers from Romania and 12 other allied and partner countries will take part from March 20 to April 2 in the NATO Sea Shield 2023 integrated exercise, which will take place in the southeast of Romania on the sea and on rivers, including in the Danube Delta and coastal zone. More than 30 warships of the Romanian Navy, two warships of the Bulgarian Navy, 14 aircraft from France, Romania, the United States and Turkey, 15 boats and patrol boats of institutions of the national defense system, 57 military vehicles and other military equipment, as well as specialists in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear protection,” the country’s naval headquarters said.
It is reported that military personnel from Albania, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Moldova, the United States of Turkey will take part in the exercise, which will conduct complex training activities in all conditions.
It is noted that these exercises “contribute to the promotion of regional and international initiatives and interests of Romania, as well as to increase the level of interoperability between the participating forces.”
Source: Rosbalt
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