The commander of the Ukrainian Navy called for the protection of Russian submarines

Commander of the naval forces of Ukraine vice-admiral igor voronchenko said that the navy of his country need anti-submarine ships to protect against Russian submarines. Given the existing challenges and threats, primarily on the arrival into service of the black sea fleet of six new submarines to protect the country from sea direction we need anti-submarine ships - quoted voronchenko in the press-service of naval forces of Ukraine in Facebook. So the vice-admiral explained the need to repair the corvette "Vinnitsa", which is already 40 years in service. I'm sure the presence of the ukrainian navy anti-submarine ship will be one of the significant limiting factors of the aggressor — he said. In august, vice-admiral of the ukrainian navy sergiy gayduk said that due to the lack of state maritime policy of the ukrainian navy could disappear in the near future. In april, the captain of the first rank of naval forces of Ukraine, first deputy chairman of the union of officers of Ukraine yevhen lupakov said that if Ukraine had submarines, she allegedly would have easily defeated the Russian black sea fleet. In response, the deputy of the state duma from the crimean region ruslan balbec advised Kiev to refrain from jokes about the black sea fleet, warning that the decision of the ukrainian submarines to reach the coast of the crimea would become for them "A hike in one way. "Since independence in Ukraine, decommissioned and disposed of 19 combat ships and boats, 45 support vessels. The construction of five vessels.

The ukrainian navy has 11 ships. In service with the ukrainian navy, in addition to "Vinnitsa" are the frigate "Hetman sahaidachny", missile boat "Pryluky" minesweeper "Genichesk", landing ships "Svatovo" and "Kirovograd", artillery boat "Skadovsk".