ODESSA, December 8 (AVN) - Ukrainian and U.S. Navies will begin the Sea Breeze-99 command and staff exercise here on Thursday, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Defence Ministry told the Military News Agency.
The training will be held under the auspices of the NATO Partnership for Peace programme and involve naval officials of Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece, the spokesman said.
Combat ships, aviation and ground troops will not take part in the exercise. Instead, the participants will use maps and computers to train interaction in the course of a peacemaking operation and provision of humanitarian aid to a certain "Green Republic," which has been badly affected by flooding.
The exercise will last until December 16. Russia is not taking part in it.