"The US Navy destroyer Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) has begun its transition towards the Black Sea to conduct operations with NATO allies and partners in the region," the statement said.

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

According to Russian leader Vladimir Putin in an interview with Pavel Zarubin on the Moscow.

Kremlin.

Putin ”, NATO exercises in the Black Sea pose a challenge for Russia.