During August 31 – September 12, Ukrainian-American naval exercises “Sea Breeze – 2015” including representatives of the fleets of other countries, are planned to start in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, as well as in the north-western part of the Black Sea.

The purpose of training is to practice multinational security operations in crisis regions. Training has been designed to increase the level of confidence and security in the region, to improve interoperability between the Naval Forces of Ukraine and navies of NATO member and partner countries.

United press center of the training will organize media days for the accredited journalists.

Journalists wishing to cover the activities of the Ukrainian-US exercises “Sea Breeze -2015”, must have accreditation, for which one need to contact the press center of command of the Naval Forces of Ukraine (contacts: tel. (048) 779-81-74, e-mail: press_vms_ukr@i.ua). Contact: Oleg O. Chalyk, mob.tel. – (099) 348-90-04

Accreditation application shall contain:

1. Name of the media.
2. Name and patronymic, position of media representative (representatives).
3. Number and passport series, number of editorial certificate and date of its issue.
4. Position and signature of the media director.
5. Contact phone.

Applications are accepted until 15:00, 26 August.

Press center of the Command of Naval Forces of Ukraine