NATO will send more surveillance and intelligence equipment to the Black Sea after attacks on merchant ships there, media report, citing alliance spokeswoman Allison Hart.

Maritime patrol aircraft, radars, drones and intelligence assets will head to the region, along with forensic analysis equipment. No date has been given for their deployment.

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Hart wrote on X that NATO ambassadors met today for a North Atlantic Council session on Black Sea security.

She said the alliance has already increased its presence on its eastern flank, including with counter-drone capabilities.