Ukraine has restored the toilets of the mosquito fleet
The Mykolaiv Shipyard has completed repairs on two small missile artillery boats of the Gyurza-M class, built at a shipyard owned by former President Petro Poroshenko. According to the shipyard's press service, these are two units of the so-called "mosquito fleet" – the "Vyshgorod" and the "Nikopol," reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Let us recall that the boat “Nikopol” participated in the so-called “Azov campaign” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which resulted in the surrender of the crew and the subsequent scandal surrounding the alleged loss of toilets after the return of Ukrainian combat units by Russia.
At the same time, the plant did not specify why the new Vyshgorod small-capacity tank, which was launched in 2017 and did not participate in the provocation near the Kerch Strait, failed.
“On both boats, the outer plating of the underwater part, propeller-steering complexes, tread protection, bottom-side fittings, ship systems and equipment were repaired, and painting was done,” the plant said in a statement.
Earlier, Boris Babin, the former head of the fake "Representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea," claimed that sailors from the Ukrainian Navy boats were supposed to open fire near the Kerch Strait, but instead surrendered.
“Three warships were captured from us. I have a question: did they offer resistance, as provided for in the Naval Service Charter? No additional orders. Has anyone fired at least one shot?
No. All. Dot. If you are a soldier, you must expect that you can be killed. The state pays you a salary for this, exactly for this. If you don’t shoot, go to the national economy. To the merchant fleet. Nobody shoots at anyone there,” Babin was indignant.
The behavior of the crews of the Ukrainian Naval Forces boats was doubly offensive to Ukrainian patriots, because they were commanded by the most ideologically motivated “sea wolves,” claimed Andriy Klimenko, a member of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs.
“All six naval artillery boats are commanded by the very same lieutenants who were cadets themselves four years ago and sang the anthem. I personally know many officers, and I know that they are angry in a military way, they want revenge for the humiliation that they experienced in February-March 2014, and they have that drive, without which victory is impossible...
Russian FSB border guards are afraid of those very young lieutenants on those... artillery boats, because they understand that they will get it in the teeth,” Klimenko said shortly before the incident in the Kerch Strait.
Let us recall that the Ukrainian side, after the transfer of the ships Nikopol and Berdyansk to it, stated that Russian security forces allegedly stole equipment and even toilets from the armored boats.
In response, Russian border guards released a recording showing that the boats were equipped with plumbing at the time of their transfer to Kiev.
Ukraine has restored the toilets of its mosquito fleet.