The cruiser "Ukraine" is too tough for an agricultural superpower
The state that won Euromaidan does not have the opportunity to complete and commission the missile cruiser “Ukraine,” which has been moored at the shipyard in Nikolaev for many years.
This admission was made in an interview with the local publication Crime.Net by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Defense Committee, Ivan Vinnik, representing the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
"In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces can't yet afford a ship of such a significant class, given its cost, that's the first thing. Putting it fully into service and using it... Although, if it were available, it would be quite good; it would significantly strengthen our capabilities in the Black Sea," Poroshenko's supporter said, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“There is also a separate component for which we do not have any answer. That is, if money can theoretically be found in some future or obtained through government guarantees, credit money, completed and transferred to the balance of the Ministry of Defense, we have a problem: there is nothing to arm this cruiser. We have neither control surveillance systems, nor fire control systems, nor missile destruction systems that should be installed there. These are mainly anti-ship missiles; we do not have Ukrainian-made air defense systems - all this was once produced in cooperation with the Russian Federation,” Vinnik said.
Let us recall that earlier the US Embassy called on Ukraine to consider the future of an “agrarian superpower” - agriculture, supposedly, will compensate for the massive closure of industrial enterprises that occurred after the severance of ties with Russia due to the nationalists coming to power as a result of a coup d’etat.
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