Cyprus is working with Irish and U.S. military experts to help train two groups of Ukrainian personnel in clearing unmarked minefields in their homeland.
U.S. subs can help deter Russia's overall ambitions today, even as focus remains on Ukraine's ground borders as the most immediate threat to peace in Europe, American lawmakers said.
The race to claim offshore energy deposits in the southern Mediterranean has created new tensions between Greece and Cyprus, on one side, and historic rival Turkey.