US-led war games wrap up in Ukraine: EUCOM

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BERLIN (AFP) — The United States European command said Monday it had wrapped up multinational military exercises in ex-Soviet Ukraine, which had faced protests and complaints from Moscow.

Exercise Sea Breeze 2008 involved more than 2,000 service members from 16 countries and was held in the Black Sea and at land-based Ukrainian training facilities, according to EUCOM.

"Everyone participating in this exercise should be very proud of the level of interoperability and cooperation that was achieved among the sea, air and land components as well as among nations," US Navy Captain John Moore, the Sea Breeze deputy commander, said in a statement.

Russia's foreign ministry had said at the start of the exercise however that it saw it as a threat.

"The nature...