Black Sea Fleet monitors a group of NATO ships

This was reported at the National Defense Management Center of Russia.

"The forces and means of the Black Sea Fleet have begun to continuously monitor the actions of a group of mine-sweeping forces of the united NATO Navy, which entered the Black Sea on October 29," RIA Novosti quoted a statement from the fleet.

The NATO group includes the Aliakmon multipurpose transport vessel of the Greek Navy, the French Navy's Orion minesweeper-finder, the Italian naval minesweeper Alghero, and the Spanish Navy's base minesweeper Duero.

Earlier, the Black Sea Fleet submarines Veliky Novgorod and Kolpino conducted joint exercises.