Ukrainian frigate «Hetman Sagaidachny»MOSCOW, Mar 4 Flagship of the Ukrainian Navy frigate «Hetman Sagaidachny «they flooded in the port of Nikolaev, the Ukrainian authorities expect to restore it in the future, according to the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security.» The flagship of the Ukrainian Navy «Hetman Sahaydachny» was flooded in the port of Nikolaev. «quickly raise and update.» The center also published a photo of the ship, which was partially submerged. According to Ukrainian media, the frigate was sunk on the first day of the Russian operation in Ukraine, it was being repaired, and its weapons were dismantled. The ship was built in 1993. In January 2022, the Ukroboronprom state concern announced the conclusion of a contract for a complex of repair and modernization works on the frigate. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.
