From front, destroyer USS Bainbridge, the Italian navy frigate ITS Alpino, the French navy frigate FS Languedoc and the destroyer USS Cole transit the Adriatic Sea, July 6, 2022. Bainbridge sailed into Aksaz, Turkey, for a port visit July 18. (Elexia Morelos/U.S. Navy)
U.S. naval forces are taking part in a Black Sea exercise and visiting a Turkish city this week, bringing with them a message of NATO solidarity in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine, the Stars and Stripes reports.
