NATO ships begin minesweeping in Black Sea waters. A joint minesweeping task force from the Bulgarian and Romanian navies has begun operating in the Black Sea along Ukraine’s recently established commercial shipping lane

A joint minesweeping task force from the Bulgarian and Romanian navies has begun operating in the Black Sea along Ukraine’s recently established commercial shipping lane, Andriy Klymenko, head of the Institute for Strategic Black Sea Studies and Editor-in-Chief of BlackSeaNews, said in a Facebook post on Oct. 19.