Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times,
NATO will send additional military equipment and aircraft to the Black Sea, following a series of drone attacks on shipping vessels in the key waterway.
Ships wait in the Black Sea in Constanta, Romania, on Oct. 15, 2026. Andreea Campeanu/Reuters
Allison Hart, NATO's principal spokeswoman, said in an Oct. 20 post on X that the assets will support surveillance, reconnaissance, and forensic activities.
The decision came after NATO ambassadors met at the North Atlantic Council, the defense alliance's main decision-making body, to discuss Black Sea security.
"We will continue to stand united and ensure that we are ready and able to address any threat and to keep our one billion people safe," Hart said.
NATO's military spokesman, U.S. Army Col. Martin L. O'Donnell, said that in addition to sending the radar systems, drones, and patrol aircraft, allies will send or have sent intelligence agents and teams to conduct forensic examinations of explosives used against shipping vessels.
NATO has not attributed the attacks to any country.
The added presence comes in response to several Black Sea incidents in which drones struck cargo vessels.
Earlier this month, a number of cargo ships were hit off the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea in the space of one week.
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