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Friday, April 11, 2014

Moscow Denounces US Destroyer's Black Sea Patrol

USS Donald CookThe U.S. Aegis anti-missile destroyer Donald Cook entered the Black Sea Thursday night in a show of NATO support for regional allies bordering Ukraine that brought quick denunciations from Moscow.

NATO also released satellite photos intended to rebut Moscow's claims that Russian forces poised on Ukraine's borders were conducting routine military exercises not connected to the turmoil in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine.

The images showed warplanes, tanks and mechanized units parked at more than 100 makeshift bases in a "high state of readiness" on Ukraine's borders, NATO officials said. They said there was no evidence that the units had engaged in exercises.

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