"According to the legend of the exercises, illegal armed groups seized government bodies and set up a number of camps, checkpoints to control transport routes, airfields and important infrastructure in order to create a quasi-republic," the Ukrainian Navy said on Facebook.
It is noted that the exercises were planned taking into account the experience of hostilities in the Donbass.
In addition to the Ukrainian army, military personnel from the USA, Georgia and Moldova took part in the maneuvers.
Earlier, the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, together with the aviation of the Southern Military District (YuVO), conducted combat training flights over the Black Sea against the backdrop of NATO exercises Sea Breeze