34477336 Ukrainian Defense Ministry has offered to build a corvette "whole world"
Defense Ministry of Ukraine intends to build the first ship of the class "corvette" whole world ". On this, as reported in the press release Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Defense Minister Mikhail Yezhel. According to him, before the veterans of the fleet made a proposal to apply to the Ukrainians with a request to donate funds to build a corvette. Construction of the vessel will be engaged in "Black Sea Shipyard, but, according to if, the main obstacle to implementation of the program is funding. "We turn to the Ukrainian community. I will say more when I spoke about this initiative, the veterans, I found someone who said: 'I am ready to give the first million for the construction of this ship,'" – Yezhel said, adding that history knows examples of construction of military ships on the donations of the population. As an example, Defense Minister led the Russian Imperial Navy destroyer Novik, built on voluntary contributions to the population of Russia during the Russian-Japanese War. In mid-March it was reported that until 2021 the Ukrainian Navy will receive four new ship-class corvette, built on the project 58250. According to if, overall funding program to build the ships will be 16.22 billion hryvnia (2.04 billion dollars). Head corvette of the series, is expected to be built in 2016 by Nicholas Black Sea shipyard. Construction vehicles will be within the target's defense programs, the concept of which was approved by the Government of Ukraine on March 9. March 15, 2011 the newspaper "Kommersant-Ukraine" has written that the Ministry of National Defense to 765 million hryvnia in the implementation of all planned for 2011 defense programs, including the start of construction of corvettes. In this case, the newspaper said, the state budget the Defense Ministry will receive only 350 million hryvnia, and the remaining funds will be allocated from the special fund of the Ministry of Defence, which is experiencing a serious shortage. It should be noted that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry is facing financial difficulties is not the first year. In 2010, the Ministry of Defence has completely stopped funding for military projects, as received from the state budget was barely enough money to buy uniforms for the soldiers. With cut funding agency has had to resort to selling excess military equipment, but revenue was not significant.
