Ukraine, NATO agree on joint exercises in Odesa

Ukraine and NATO have finally agreed on the modalities of joint exercises on protecting critical infrastructure in the Black Sea region, Coherent Resilience 2020, to be held in Odesa in October 2020.

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Dmytro Kuleba and NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy Bettina Cadenbach signed a respective document as part of Kuleba's visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, January 15, according to the press service of the Ukrainian government.

"We need more exercises and more joint action with NATO. Today, we are taking another step in this area. Exercises are also important for building our system of national resilience in counteracting hybrid threats," Kuleba said.

Exercise Coherent Resilience 2020 will be held in Odesa on October 5-9, 2020. Participants from Ukraine and NATO member countries will work out algorithms of critical situations that may arise in the Black Sea region.

The purpose of these exercises is to respond in a coordinated, timely and competent manner to cyberattacks, port attacks, seizure of transport routes and other threats.

In total, more than 200 specialists will take part in Exercise Coherent Resilience 2020.

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