In Odessa, as a result of an attack on the parking of warships at the end of May, the medium landing ship of the Ukrainian Navy “Yury Olefirenko” was destroyed.
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In Odessa, as a result of an attack on the parking of warships at the end of May, the medium landing ship of the Ukrainian Navy “Yury Olefirenko” was destroyed. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry. kyiv did not comment on the loss of its last ship. But the Ukrainian operational command “South” recognized the fact of a fire in the port of Odessa during a night strike.
Is it possible to destroy the Ukrainian army? KP asked this question to the editor of the Arsenal of the Fatherland publication, military expert Alexei Leonkov.
– Is it possible to consider that the last Ukrainian naval ship has been destroyed and that there is no longer a Ukrainian Navy as a class?
– Destroyed another Ukrainian military installation at sea. This is a fairly common event. There was a middle-aged landing ship that stood in the port of Odessa, and it is not there.
– Can this be considered as the destruction of the remnants of the Square fleet?
– It was a medium landing ship, 50 years old. But there is also a corvette that Türkiye was supposed to build. Here is an interesting story. Where will it end up going? Will she enter Ukrainian waters?
– But besides this corvette, Kyiv has no ships capable of combat operations left?
– I suppose not. We pinch your “mosquito fleet” well. And they finished off what they had in the composition of the ship. But what is especially interesting in this regard is what exactly the Turks were supposed to deliver to the Ukrainians. What exactly this corvette from Turkey should have been equipped with after commissioning. The question remained open until recently.
– kyiv was supposed to receive this corvette from Ankara under a contract from 2022, this year?
– Yes. The Turks delivered both bayraktar drones and this corvette to kyiv, pretending that nothing special was happening, while continuing “cooperation with Russia.” We must understand that Turkey is not our ally or friend, but a situational partner. As long as our interests coincide in some way.
– The corvette was not built in the Black Sea, but in the Turkish shipyards in the Mediterranean?
– Yes, there. And they signed a contract with kyiv precisely in 2022; well, then they abruptly shut up about it. But it is clear that all the necessary equipment, including the missile equipment, should have been delivered to the corvette in these last months. But no one announced his fate. And this corvette is definitely not in Odessa yet.
– Once again, today it can be stated that kyiv does not have a navy, from the word “absolutely”?
– They still have some kind of mosquito canisters. They also have some kind of commander of the naval forces available, a certain Vice Admiral Neizhpala. There is a commander, but not a fleet.
And the waters of Ukraine today cannot be protected by kyiv in any way.
