The Ukrainian army trained to throw grenades and fire machine guns and pistols into the sea from the former floating workshop, now declared the “headquarters ship” of the Donbass Navy, which was transferred from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea just over a year and a half ago.
As stated by the press service of the Ukrainian Navy, the day before in the Sea of Azov, “emergency preparation of the ship for battle and repelling the attack took place,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A military expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, Captain 1st Rank Sergei Gorbachev, was skeptical about the victorious reports of the Navy.
“Donbass” is today both in its status and in its capabilities as a hostel and warehouse. I doubt that the ship can carry out any work, as a floating workshop it was brought into the Sea of Azov precisely in order to become dead anchored and, figuratively speaking, die there. And they brought him out precisely to show that there is at least something in the Sea of Azov, and something may not walk, as the sailors say, but actually float.
This ship, if I’m not mistaken, was originally intended as a control ship, but for this, apparently, Ukraine has neither the technical equipment nor professional personnel, so the ship can’t do anything else besides sail,” Gorbachev said.