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Sunday, March 16, 2014

US destroyer to conduct more drills in Black Sea amid Crimea crisis

USS TruxtunThe USS Truxtun, a US guided-missile destroyer, will carry out more exercises with allied ships in the Black Sea, its commander said on Saturday, amid an East-West crisis triggered by Russia's takeover of Crimea.

Commander Andrew Biehn was briefing reporters aboard the 300-crew destroyer as it bobbed gently in the spring sunshine in the Bulgarian port of Varna, a popular seaside resort.

The USS Truxtun last week took part in drills with Romanian and Bulgarian ships a few hundred miles from the Russian forces that entered Ukraine's ethnic Russian-majority territory of Crimea after protests toppled Ukraine's pro-Moscow president.

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