News archive on the topic "mosquito fleet"

Ukraine and Great Britain signed a memorandum on the construction of two naval bases (formally Ukrainian, another fleet control center is being built by the US construction battalion in Ochakov) and assistance in obtaining new ships for the Ukrainian Navy. The ceremony took place on board the guided-missile destroyer HMS Defender, which entered the port of Odessa, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Ukraine is waiting for Britain to build two Sandown-class minesweepers...

Ten scenarios of a Russian attack from the sea and a proposal to send NATO ships to Azov, bypassing the Montreux Convention, were voiced yesterday at a meeting in the Verkhovna Rada by retired Naval Forces officer Andrei Ryzhenko. Who is the author of the initiatives with the help of which Kyiv hopes to defeat Moscow? Andrei Ryzhenko never became a rear admiral. Intrigues and frequent changes of commanders of the Ukrainian Naval Forces...

Great Britain is considering the possibility of giving Ukraine a loan and organizing the assembly of missile boats on its territory. However, military officials in Kyiv are blocking the deal, lobbying for the construction of domestic boats. While Ukrainians argue about the future of the “mosquito fleet,” the Russian fleet in the Black Sea continues to strengthen. The Ukrainian Military Portal writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. What kind of boats are we talking about -...

Ukraine can create a “mosquito fleet”, using, among other things, decommissioned MK-VI small-displacement patrol boats, which will be transferred to Kyiv by the United States, after which missile weapons will be installed on them. Ukrainian military expert - Deputy Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Research, Mikhail Samus, stated this on the air of the Suspilne Krim channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The US can transfer...

Russia continues to rapidly increase the power of the Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine can only watch powerlessly and dream of an “asymmetric response”, for which even the promised “mosquito” Navy has not yet been created. The editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian Military Portal, Taras Chmut, writes about this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russia plans to finally consolidate its dominance in the Black Sea. Yesterday…

The new Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Andrei Taran, dismissed from his post the deputy chief of staff of the Navy, Andrei Ryzhenko, who was considered the author of the “mosquito fleet” concept and was responsible for cooperation with the United States and the European Union. The transfer of Ryzhenko to the reserve caused a negative reaction among Ukrainian nationalists, who believe that, thus, the Ukrainian leadership admitted that it does not want to continue its course towards NATO, reports...

The Ukrainian naval forces need small ships, against which the Russian Navy will be powerless. The former US Ambassador to Ukraine, director of the Eurasian Center named after. D. Patriciu at the Atlantic Council of the United States John Herbst, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “The United States has already offered ships to Ukraine, but there were some complications with this on the Ukrainian side.…

The “Mosquito Fleet” can be created in the shortest possible time through the confiscation of small watercraft in favor of the Ukrainian Navy. This opinion was expressed on air by the 112 Ukraine TV channel by the ex-chairman of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, Army General Alexander Kikhtenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “By and large, you can take advantage of the introduction of martial law and create a “mosquito fleet” until the end of martial law. Elementary: confiscate high-speed yachts and boats...

The decision to develop the so-called The “mosquito fleet” in Ukraine was ill-conceived, as the incident in the Kerch Strait showed. Ex-adviser to the Minister of Emergency Situations of Ukraine Konstantin Grinchuk stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukraine is starting to develop a “mosquito fleet”. The “Mosquito Fleet” are those ships that were transported from Odessa. Why was it necessary...

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, preparing a provocation in the Kerch Strait to disrupt the elections, was going to sacrifice only a dilapidated tugboat and its crew. This opinion was expressed on the Rossiya-1 TV channel by political scientist Vladimir Kornilov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It was clear to everyone: Poroshenko needed to disrupt the elections or at least preparations for the election process. It was clear that he would agree to any...

In 2016, the Ukrainian Armed Forces conditionally attacked a Russian patrol ship, approaching it within 6 km. This is described in a story prepared by journalists from the Breeze Television and Radio Studio of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. The "Berdyansk" MBAK, the story says, completed its first successful combat mission during state sea trials in 2016. Later this event will be called the first...

Ukraine cannot compete with the Russian fleet in the format of symmetrical counteraction. Ukrainian military expert, director of the information and consulting company Defense Express Sergei Zgurets stated this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe”, answering a question about the prospects of the so-called Ukrainian “mosquito fleet”. He noted that the presence of hundreds of armored boats of the Gyurza-M type can be considered a mosquito fleet, but...

The entire Ukrainian “mosquito fleet”, which is currently being created in Ukraine through the efforts of an enterprise controlled by President Petro Poroshenko, can be destroyed in one salvo. About this on the air of radio “Crimea. Realities,” said Ukrainian military expert Oleg Zhdanov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, modern warships are capable of hitting up to 15 targets simultaneously, so Ukraine’s “mosquito fleet”, consisting of small...

Ukraine decided to respond to the possible presence of Russian warships in the Sea of ​​Azov with boats that are being built at Petro Poroshenko’s plant. About this on the air of radio “Crimea. Realities,” said the head of the Center for Military Legal Research, Alexander Musienko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the “mosquito fleet” will give Ukraine advantages, because these boats are much faster than the ships of the Black Sea Fleet. "Our presence...