U.S. military equipment before being transferred to EuropeATHENA, Mar 7The giant American transport vessel Liberty Passion is carrying military equipment to the port of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece, the MarineTraffic website reports. According to its information, the transport left the American port of Charleston on March 5 and will arrive in the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the evening of March 19. The Liberty Passion vessel is designed to transport equipment, it was built in 2017 and flies the US flag. Its carrying capacity is 20.3 thousand tons, the current draft is 10 meters. The ship is 199.98 meters long and 32.3 meters wide. Greek Communist Party news site 902.gr reports that the ship is carrying military equipment «to the port of Alexandroupolis, which has been turned into a US and NATO base by the Greek governments.» Allegedly, this equipment will then be transferred by rail to Poland to reinforce the NATO grouping on the border with Russia.Ukraine will not demand NATO membership, Kiev said Not far from Alexandroupolis, there is also a strike group of the American aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman. Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Warsaw wants to deploy as many American troops as possible on its territory. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken replied that he «agreed on the need to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO.» According to President Vladimir Putin, it is also necessary to denazify Ukraine, bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. . With the support of the Russian army, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, there are losses on all sides.
