In the FSB statedthat the command ship “Donbass” of the Ukrainian Navy is moving towards the Kerch Strait. Does not respond to requests to change course. At the same time, according to the same FSB, the Donbass crew reported that the ship “does not plan to follow through the Kerch Strait”.
“On December 9 of this year at 09.12 am, the command ship“ Donbass ”of the Ukrainian Navy withdrew from the roadstead of the port of Mariupol and moved in the direction of the Kerch Strait,” the FSB said. “In accordance with the mandatory regulations in the seaport of Kerch, approved by the order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 313 dated October 21, 2015, the Ukrainian side has not submitted applications for the passage of the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal”.
According to the department, the ship is located at a distance of 18 nautical miles to the Kerch Strait. T
Command ship “Donbass” was launched in the Polish Szczecin in 1969. The ship was repaired several times after various accidents. In 2004, the fire that broke out on it was extinguished for five hours. In 2007, during a storm, he was torn from the mooring lines at the quay wall, he kept only on anchors in the middle of the Sevastopol Bay in the epicenter of a five-point storm. The last maintenance renovation was carried out in 2017.
“In principle, for its time it was a serious ship, – wrote about the ship previously a specialist in the navy, editor of the National Defense magazine Alexander Mozgovoy. – Built on the basis of artillery boats, Project 205P patrol boats have two paired 30-mm cannons, mine and torpedo armament. Of course, Ukraine is unlikely to have mines and torpedoes left for them, and the fire control systems are hopelessly outdated … My opinion: this ship cannot be called the most powerful, but it can spoil the blood. ”
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