The special expert group will offer variants of use of a cruiser "Ukraine".
The special expert group will offer variants of use of a cruiser "Ukraine".
Nikolaev. On January, 19th. The INTERFAX-UKRAINA - In Ukraine the special expert worker is created
Group which carries out the deep analysis of conformity of taktiko-technical characteristics of a cruiser
"Ukraine" to the defensive doctrine of the country and the doctrine of reforming of its Armed forces. Following the results of job
Groups will be defined variants of future use of a cruiser.
It was declared by prime minister Anatoly Kins at press conference on Friday in Nikolaev.
"These questions will dare at the highest political level of Ukraine taking into account that
Influences which will render commissioning of a cruiser "Ukraine" on balance of forces of region and the world ", - has underlined
The prime minister.
According to the prime minister, now the government solves a question of financing of end
Completions of a cruiser and calculation with state enterprise "Ship-building factory of 61 Communards" for
The performed jobs and the rendered services.
"Certainly, the cruiser will be completed", - the prime minister has declared.
As the general director of factory Michael Zhela has informed, jobs on a cruiser are stopped since July
Last year, and the general debt of the state to factory makes 50 million grn.
Besides it, idle time of a cruiser with the command at a berthing wall of factory manages to the last in 300
Thousand grn. Monthly.
Answering a question on, whether participation in a working trip of the prime minister in Nikolaev the ex-minister is connected
Alexander Kuzmuk's defences with its possible balloting in People's Deputies on this district,
A.Kinah has informed, that the ex-minister is involved in discussion of the future cruiser "Ukraine".
"At Alexander Ivanovicha (Kuzmuk - IF) huge experience and it, by the way, has stopped not in hotel, and on
To board of a cruiser "Ukraine" more deeply to study these questions and to make corresponding offers
About completion (a cruiser - IF) in as much as possible fast terms and further its effective use ", -
The prime minister has responded.
Building of a rocket cruiser "Ukraine" (earlier - "Admiral Lobov"), intended for
Aircraft carrier protection in the World ocean, the Nikolaev ship-building factory of 61 Communards of the beginnings on
To the order of the Navies of the former USSR in 1984.
The vessel has been floated in 1990. In connection with financing problems its completion was
It is suspended in 1996 and it is renewed in March, 1999. As of the beginning of 2001 degree
Readiness of a cruiser it was estimated in 98 %.
Market cost of the ship of a similar class in the world market makes about $500 million
In the autumn of last year the president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma has supported sale of a cruiser after it
Completions of Russia, having specified, that the vessel is not entered in the doctrine of the Navies of Ukraine.
Earlier Ukraine considered possibility of sale of a vessel to the third countries. Among the potential
Buyers China and India were considered.
//* an information Source: the Interfax Ukraine, 19.01.02
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