MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. The Black Sea Fleet has launched continuous monitoring of a group of NATO’s warships that entered the Black Sea, Russia’s National Defense Control Center reported on Thursday.

"The Black Sea Fleet’s forces and capabilities have started to continuously monitor the NATO mine countermeasures naval group that entered the Black Sea on October 29, 2020," the Center said.

The NATO mine countermeasures group includes the Hellenic Navy general support landing ship Aliakmon, the French Navy minehunter Orion, the Italian Navy ocean minesweeper Alghero and the Spanish Navy coastal minesweeper Duero.