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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com

As Russia escalated tensions with Kiev and finally launched an invasion force, the U.S. and other NATO allies were beefing up naval presence in the Black Sea in an effort to muster a show of resolve against Russia’s adventurism.

Two more NATO warships, the USS Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer based out of Rota, Spain, and the French frigate Commandant Biro, were on the way to the Black Sea and scheduled to arrive there on Sept. 3.

According to a regional treaty called the Montreux Convention, naval vessels from non-Black Sea nations are not allowed to stay in the Black Sea for more than 21 days.

This allows Russia to use its Black Sea Fleet, headquartered in the newly annexed Crimea port of Sebastopol, to act as the regional hegemon.

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  Black Sea fleet, Montreux Convention, NATO increases Black Sea naval presence as Russia invades Ukraine, USS Ross