A view of Maydan Nezalezhnosti Square in Kiev, Ukraine
Photo: Alexey Kudenko
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Kiev Eager to Sell Missile Cruiser
Selling Ukraina missile cruiser will make sense, said Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Tereshchenko as quoted by representatives of his ministry’s news service.
”We cannot use Ukraina for Ukrainian Navy,” Tereshchenko announced. The country’s Navy doesn’t have and won’t have the targets for this ship, and therefore, selling it will make sense, Defense Ministry thinks.
Construction of the cruiser began in 1984 at Nikolaev shipyard and it floated out in August 11, 1990. Ready at 75 percent, the ship was withdrawn from Russia’s Navy and passed to Ukraine in 1993, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Ukrainian president ordered to complete construction of the cruiser February 17, 1998, but Russia refused to buy it for its Navy in two years. Today’s readiness of the cruiser is estimated at 96 percent.
The cruiser has passed no sea trials yet and no missile devices have been installed on it. Roughly $30 million is needed to complete its construction.
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