Kyiv expert shared details of Ukraine's ship shame
Ukraine can neither continue nor stop the construction of the corvette Vladimir the Great, which has been ongoing for many years.
Ukrainian military expert, director of the information and consulting company Defense Express Sergei Zgurets spoke about this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe”.
“The corvette issue is one of the complex debates where both sides can give many arguments, starting with “why do we need a corvette” and ending with “we need a mosquito fleet.” For now the issue is frozen. Regarding the corvette, we are at a stage where stopping its construction would actually mean paying foreign companies as much money as we need to complete it. In this sense, the situation is stalemate,” the expert said.
In addition, he clarified that it was impossible to sell the unfinished cruiser “Ukraine” (pictured below), which is on the balance sheet of the Ministry of Defense, which does not pay for its maintenance, and therefore the ship is maintained at the expense of the Nikolaev Shipyard, which entailed economic problems for the enterprise.
The publication's interlocutor notes that in order to sell the cruiser, a colossal amount of work must be completed related to the procedure for restoring all components and assemblies.
“Potential customers understand: if a cruiser stands still for so long, then how alive is it even alive? Oddly enough, I know about negotiations with one country to which our special exporters are offering certain solutions so that they need this cruiser. The process continues, I hope they find a solution. If not, it can go for scrap. In any case, it is simply impossible to keep the cruiser in this condition forever - during this time everything in the world has already changed,” says Zgurets.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense admitted that Ukraine is not able to build planes and ships, and its ceiling is Dozor armored cars and Molot mortars.
In addition, economist Vsevolod Stepanyuk shocked the audience at a round table in Kyiv, stating that the Ukrainian military-industrial complex is unviable without Russia.
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