French aviso, U.S. destroyer enter Black Sea
MOSCOW. Sept 4 (Interfax-AVN) - Two NATO warships have entered the Black Sea, a source in the Russian Navy Staff told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.
"The French aviso Commandant Birot and the U.S. destroyer Ross passed through Black Sea straits on Wednesday and entered the Black Sea in the evening," he said.
The French Navy's surveillance ship Dupuy de Lome has been present in the Black Sea since August 16. The Montreux Convention, which limits the presence of ships from non-Black Sea countries in the Black Sea waters to 21 days, binds the Dupuy de Lome to leave the Black Sea on September 5.
Naval ships of the United States and other NATO member countries have been practically constantly present in the Black Sea since the beginning of the crisis in eastern Ukraine.