London. November 29. INTERFAX - The American missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke, having completed her stay in the Bulgarian port of Varna, went to sea "to continue operations in the Black Sea," the US 6th Operational Fleet said on Monday.
As the US military reported, on November 25, the destroyer entered the Black Sea "to conduct joint operations with NATO allies."
After the approach of the American destroyer, the forces of the Black Sea Fleet immediately began monitoring its operations, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation reported at the time.
The USS Arleigh Burke, along with the similar destroyers USS Ross, USS Roosevelt and USS Donald Cook, permanently stationed in Europe at the Spanish naval base in Rota, together with the Aegis missile defense ground bases in Poland and Romania, are integral parts of the program for building a European phased adaptive missile defense system.
In November, the missile destroyer USS Ross and the flagship of the US 6th Fleet USS Mount Whitney were in the Black Sea for more than two weeks.
After the beginning of the crisis in eastern Ukraine, ships of the US Navy and other NATO countries regularly enter the Black Sea.
