"About ten aircraft crews and ships of the Novorossiysk naval base of the Black Sea Fleet took part in this combat training event," Interfax cites a statement.

It is specified that the patrol ship "Vasily Bykov", the small anti-submarine ships "Kasimov" and "Yeisk" took part in the maneuvers.

On November 13, it became known that the missile destroyer Porter and the headquarters ship USS Mount Whitney of the US Navy conducted exercises with ships from Turkey, Romania and Ukraine in international waters.