Aimed to promote peace, security and interoperability between regional allies as well as NATO partners, the two-week exercise brought together nearly 1,000 military personnel from nine countries. Pararescuemen from the 131st Rescue Squadron train their Ukrainian and Danish counterparts at Vinnytsia Air Base, Ukraine, Oct. The exercise paired California Air National Guard assets with the Ukrainian Air Force during close-air support missions, cyber defense operations and air sovereignty defense. Robert Swertfager, the partnership program director for the California Air National Guard, told Military Times last month. "It was basically the largest of its kind in Eastern Europe ever,” Lt.
The Air Force wrapped up Clear Sky 2018, a large, multinational air exercise hosted by Ukraine in October. That partnership has stepped up recently. The California National Guard has been linked to Ukraine through a State Department partnership program since 1993, often rotating airmen through the country for training. Similarly, the Air Force has held exercises of significance in Ukraine this year. “Attempts to flex muscles in these conditions will hardly help stabilize the situation in this region.” “Military activities will take place in direct proximity to the conflict zone in southeastern Ukraine where Ukrainian military units continue to shell peaceful Donbass cities every day despite a ‘bread truce’ announced on July 1 by the Minsk Contact Group,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a July Moscow briefing.
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