A decommissioned American boat in Ukraine was given the name of a Marine who fled Crimea
One of the Island-type boats decommissioned by the US Navy and transferred to Ukraine as assistance was named after a participant in the punitive operation against the residents of Donbass, a Marine Vyacheslav Kubrak, who was blown up in the Joint Forces Operation zone.
This is stated in the decree of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Kubrak served in Crimea and fled the peninsula in 2014. He took part in the punitive operation in the Donbass in the south of the DPR with the rank of commander of an engineer platoon of the 36th brigade.
In October 2019, Kubrak was injured as a result of an explosion from an unknown explosive device and died in hospital. In 2020, he was posthumously awarded the title “Hero of Ukraine”.
It is noteworthy that Kubrak is almost the same age as the boat “Island”, named after him, which was built in 1989 for the US Coast Guard.
“It’s a pity that the state calls such people “heroes.” Whatever you name the boat, that’s how it will float,” ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Zhuravko commented to PolitNavigator.
In his opinion, Kubrak is “a punisher and a murderer of his own citizens.”
“You can’t call them heroes. These are traitors, policemen, and Zelensky has sunk below the plinth,” the ex-deputy added.
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