In coming days, two British warships – one destroyer and one frigate – are to enter the Black Sea,

Monday, April 19, 2021

reported London’s Sunday Times. With foreign aircraft carriers effectively banned from the Black Sea by the 1936 Montreux Convention, the flagship of the Royal Navy’s carrier group, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, will remain nearby, in the Eastern Mediterranean, with its 60 aircraft. The Montreux Convention limits warships from non-Black Sea nations to three weeks in the Black Sea. Consequently, two US Navy destroyers, the USS Donald Cook and USS Roosevelt, are monitoring Black Sea developments from the coast of Crete, a two-day sail from the Bosporus.

Support independent journalism team

Dear Ukraine Business News reader, we are a team of 20 Ukrainian journalists, researchers, reporters and editors who would humbly ask for your support.

Previous post

Russia’s naval deployments in the Black and Azov Seas threaten to “block important trade routes in international waters,”

Next post

The US, UK, and the EU have protested Russia’s ban on Ukrainian and foreign navy ships from the southern approach to the Kerch Strait

Previous Main Topics