US Senator Robert Menendez expressed his strong disapproval of the possibility of Turkey acquiring additional batteries of the Russian  S-400 anti-aircraft/missile system. The reaction of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee comes in the wake of the publication of the Russian news agency TASS which claims that Turkey is preparing to sign a new agreement with Russia for the supply of the S-400 system.

The berthing of the USNS MENDONCA in the port of Alexandroupolis was announced by the president of the Alexandroupolis Port Authority, Kostas Hatzimichail, in a tweet:

Greece on Friday condemned the incursion of two Turkish fighter jets within 2.5 nautical miles of the northeastern port city of Alexandroupoli, calling the incident an “unprecedented violation of national sovereignty,” Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported.