Ukraine and Russia have agrred to renew the composition of the working groups that deal with basing of the Black Sea fleet of the Russian Federation. According to Ukrainian Government Portal, this was informed by Minister of Defense of Ukraine Pavlo Lebedev on the proving ground of the 169-th training center of Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Desna settlement) while commenting to the journalists outcomes of his meeting with the Russian counterpart, Armed Forces General Sergey Shoygu.
“The Agreement concerning the Black Sea fleet of the Russian Federation was signed 18 years ago, 80 working groups and various subcommissions has been set up, but a pile of current issues remain unsolved till now,” Pavlo Lebedev told.