The Navy explained why the occupiers got rid of him – UNIAN
Ukrainian equipment was purchased separately for the ships.
Recently, a ceremony was held in the Russian Federation to hand over a missile ship to India, which was once built for the Russian Navy. According to the speaker of the Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Dmitry Pletenchuk, the Russian Federation sold several frigates to India because it could not complete them without the engines produced by the Zorya-Mashproekt plant (Nikolaev).
“Even before 2014, Russia laid down a series of frigates. These are universal frigates that have universal launch silos,” Pletenchuk said during the telethon.
He explained that even then Moscow understood: Caliber missiles were “yesterday”, and were switching to a more modern type of weapon to install it on sea platforms.
“But…