Ukraine and Nato launch warship drills in Black Sea

A view of the British destroyer HMS Defender as it sails near Crimea in the Black Sea (AP)

Ukraine and Nato launched Black Sea drills that will involve dozens of warships, an exercise that follows last week’s incident with a British destroyer off Crimea.

Moscow said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs in the path of British destroyer Defender on Wednesday to force her out of an area near the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.