Saturday, March 29, 2014

Russia to complete technical inspection of "confiscated" Ukrainian ships by 2014 year end



The technical inspection of Ukrainian naval units that joined the Russian Black Sea Fleet will be completed by the end of 2014 published by the news agency RIA Novosti (RN).

According to a source within the Black Sea Fleet of the process is going to last a reasonable time, but the Fleet Administration hopes will be completed by the end of 2014.

The source also said that so far the most operationally ready units, of art, are the Corvettes: Ternopil (U209), Lutsk (U205) and K hmelnitsky . Other vessels in a high state of readiness is the ship convoy Slavutich as well as two landing ships the Kostyantyn Olshansky and Kirovograd.

Regarding the operational readiness of Ternopil, the ship had been prepared to develop in April in the sea of ​​Aden where would perform patrols to tackle piracy. The Black Sea Fleet, had his doubts about the operational status of several ships at anchor in the Bay of Sevastopol Streletskaya, including minelayer.

These ships have made several trips to the open sea where we have some doubts about the navigability the source added.

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