{"id":229849,"date":"2025-07-01T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229849\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:25:11","slug":"nato-forces-showcase-naval-support-for-ukraine-off-dorset-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229849\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato forces showcase naval support for Ukraine off Dorset coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cdre Banfield, who is the co-leader of the maritime capability coalition for Ukraine, added that there has been significant mining by both Russia and Ukraine during the conflict between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said giving Ukrainian forces the capabilities to use the Mine Counter Measure vessels, which the Royal Navy use, will allow Ukrainian forces to clear the seas in a post-war world and help to &#8220;keep ships safe at sea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that it is particularly vital to keep shipping lanes open as Ukraine is a significant global supplier of agricultural goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on the day of exercises, Cdre Banfield said: &#8220;So this is to hone the individual skills of the operators, to hone the skills of the battle staffs, to plan mine counter-measure operations but most importantly is for the navies of the world to be able to operate together so that when we do this for real in a combat situation, we have done this before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He admitted that there is also much that the Nato forces can learn from Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cdre Banfield, who is the co-leader of the maritime capability coalition for Ukraine, added that there has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-229849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}