22 Facts About Ukrainian Navy

Ukraine had been scheduling to rebuild its naval forces since 2005 by building the domestic project 58250, the first Ukrainian Navy designed and built corvette, as well as ordering four patrol boats in 2013 from Willard Marine.

Distant operations of the Ukrainian Navy are limited to multinational activities, such as Operation Active Endeavour and Operation Atalanta in the Mediterranean and Horn of Africa.

In December 1917 the Black Seas Fleet squadron under Ukrainian Navy flags led by the Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III and included another cruiser and three destroyers participated in the evacuation of the 127th Infantry Division from Trabzon back to Ukraine.

The greater part of the Ukrainian Navy fleet remained in Sevastopol – there were 30 destroyers and torpedo boats, 25 auxiliaries, 7 battleships and small craft as well as 15 submarines left in Sevastopol under Admiral Myhaylo Ostrogradskiy who in this situation assumed command.

In Ukrainian Navy hands remained only small in numbers subdivisions of marines.

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In January 1992 the Supreme Soviet of Russia raised the question of the political status of Crimea and of the constitutionality of the 1954 decision to transfer of Crimean Oblast of the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian Navy SSR, accusing Nikita Khrushchev of treason against the Russian people.

Ukrainian Navy side issued reminders of the number of international treaties and agreements between the two countries, such as the 19 November 1990 treaty between the Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian Navy SSR, in which both sides recognized the territorial integrity of the other, as well as the Belavezha Accords of 8 December 1991 and the Alma-Ata Protocol of 21 December 1991.

In September 1991, an office of the Society of Ukrainian Navy Officers was opened in Sevastopol on the initiative of Major Volodymyr Kholodyuk and captains-lieutenant Ihor Tenyukh and Mykola Huk.

Ukrainian Navy was in the office of Ivan Yermakov accepting a proposition of the First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ukraine to become the commander of the future Ukrainian Naval Forces.

The Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Moscow considered this a mutiny and attempted to act accordingly.

The Russian Ukrainian Navy lost several important facilities, most notably the NITKA naval aviation training facility in Saky, and the special forces base in Ochakiv.

Ukrainian Navy ship carrying military cargo was hijacked off the coast of Somalia on 23 September 2008.

Ukrainian Navy officials stated that special forces eliminated the pirates and retook the ship.

Russian Navy sources had claimed the Ukrainian ships were "not operational because they are old, obsolete, and in poor condition".

The Ukrainian Navy compiled and released a list of their officers who defected to Russia, calling their actions treasonous.

On 18 August 2014, Alex Zinchenko of the 73rd Naval Center of Special Operations was the first member of the Ukrainian Navy killed during the war in Donbas while conducting an operation near Donetsk.

Headquarters and Main Naval Base of the Ukrainian Navy were located in Sevastopol in Striletska Bay within the Bay of Sevastopol.

Bulk of operational forces of the Ukrainian Navy have been organised since 2018 into two operational commands - the Seaborne Command and the Marine Infantry Command, with a plethora of units, such as naval aviation, signals troops, engineer troops etc.

Some 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the main warships of the Ukrainian Navy are former Black Sea Fleet vessels that were designed and built in the Soviet Union.

Ukrainian Navy received its first complex of Bayraktar Tactical Block 2 on 15 July 2021.

Ukrainian Navy was highly affected by the seizure of Crimea by Russia in 2014.

Ukrainian Navy received its first complex of Bayraktar Tactical Block 2 on 15 July 2021.