Crimea is not owned by one person - Zelensky on security in the Black Sea
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky praised the military exercises of border guards, the Armed Forces, and NATO units. According to him, the Ukrainian military has demonstrated that they perform tasks on a par with the best troops in Europe. The Ukrainian leader noted that these exercises indicated that the Black Sea and occupied Crimea are not the property of one person.
The president stated this during a visit to the Ihor Momot Main Training Centre for the personnel of the SBGS, as part of a working trip to the Cherkasy region, the President’s Office reports.
“Once again, together with our friends - international partners, we pointed out that the Black Sea and our Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea are not the property of one person. They have internationally recognized territories and borders of our independent Ukraine. Return of the Black and Azov Seas to international maritime law shipping should become a priority for the world community“, - Zelensky said.
He also praised the military for successfully conducting such exercises as Sea Breeze, Cossack Mace, Fast Trident, Joint Efforts.
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The head of Ukraine noted that a line for the production of elements of border barriers and a training centre for the use and operation of pilotless aerial systems have been opened.
The President hopes that in the future, Ukrainians will use this military equipment only for bright events in a peaceful sky.
"I believe that the day will come when we, Ukrainians, will use our planes, helicopters, drones in the peaceful sky only for filming bright events, happy faces of the Ukrainian, terricones in the Donetsk region, endless wheat fields in the Luhansk and Cherkasy regions, the silence of the waters of the Azov and the Black Seas and, of course, the beauty of the Carpathian and Crimean mountains", - he said.
Source: Office of the President of Ukraine
What is known
- As the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Valeriy Zaluzhny said, the United Efforts 2021 military exercises, the active phase of which took place at the end of September, are exclusively defensive in nature and are designed to increase the defensive capabilities of Ukraine.
- On June 28, in the Black Sea off the coast of Ukraine, the international naval exercises Sea Breeze-2021 began, as well as joint naval patrols of the Ukrainian Navy and the US Sixth Operational Fleet.
