The U.S. Naval Construction Battalions, widely known as the Navy Seabees, go to Ukraine for construction works to be held in Mykolaiv region. According to the US Naval Institute, the Navy branch will be working on a maritime operations centre on the Black Sea coast – ‘for use during annual U.S. and Ukrainian military exercises and to assist allied maritime operations’.
‘Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 are constructing the $750,000 maritime operations center on Ukraine’s Ochakiv Naval Base (Mykolaiv region, southern Ukraine, – 112 International). When complete, the center will serve as major planning and operational hub, conducting command and control of Black Sea-region maritime assets during Sea Breeze, the annual joint U.S. and Ukrainian military exercise (the last one took place last month, – 112 International),’ US Naval Institute’s website reported.
