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Ukrainian Fast Assault Craft Stanislav
DSHK-1 ''Stanislav'' was a Ukrainian fast assault craft of the launched in 2018. The ship was built as a successor to the s, and was capable of landing a platoon-sized unit of amphibious infantry for beach assaults. Description ''Stanislav'' had a full displacement of 47 tons. It was long, wide at its widest point, and had a maximum draft of . It could reach a maximum speed of using its water jet propulsion. At , the vessel had a range of and could act autonomously for up to five days. It required a crew of five people to operate, and could carry a single platoon-sized unit of infantry (up to 32 people). ''Stanislav'' could be equipped with either two machine guns or automatic grenade launchers. It also mounted two MLRS systems which fired unguided S-8 rockets. The ship included extensive reinforced steel armor plating to protect against small arms fire, shells, and splintering. The armor mainly protected the engine room, pilothouse, and the embarked infantry accommodation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuznya Na Rybalskomu
Kuznia na Rybalskomu ( uk, "Кузня на Рибальському") is a ship building and arms industry, armament company in Kyiv, Ukraine. Situated on the Dnieper River and presently concentrating on river ships, the company is also able to produce and repair small sea vessels (both civil and navy, naval), as well as various military equipment. Kuznia na Rybalskomu was indirectly controlled by Ukrainian businessman and politician Petro Poroshenko and politician Ihor Kononenko as of 2017. In 2018, the company was bought by Serhiy Tihipko for $300 million. The main production facilities of the company have been situated on the Rybalskyi Peninsula, Rybalskyi Island in Kyiv since 1928. The shipyard specializes in shipbuilding, ship machines building, and propeller production.Bart Finzel and Jelena Kmezic, ''Privatization of Ukrainian Shipyards'' (2002), Catholic University of Brussels, 11th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuznia Na Rybalskomu
Kuznia na Rybalskomu ( uk, "Кузня на Рибальському") is a ship building and armament company in Kyiv, Ukraine. Situated on the Dnieper River and presently concentrating on river ships, the company is also able to produce and repair small sea vessels (both civil and naval), as well as various military equipment. Kuznia na Rybalskomu was indirectly controlled by Ukrainian businessman and politician Petro Poroshenko and politician Ihor Kononenko as of 2017. In 2018, the company was bought by Serhiy Tihipko for $300 million. The main production facilities of the company have been situated on the Rybalskyi Island in Kyiv since 1928. The shipyard specializes in shipbuilding, ship machines building, and propeller production.Bart Finzel and Jelena Kmezic, ''Privatization of Ukrainian Shipyards'' (2002), Catholic University of Brussels, 11th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP) In the field of shipbuilding, the plant s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrol Vessels Of The Ukrainian Navy
A patrol is commonly a group of personnel, such as law enforcement officers, military personnel, or security personnel, that are assigned to monitor or secure a specific geographic area. Etymology From French ''patrouiller'', from Old French ''patouiller'' “to paddle, paw about, patrol”, from ''patte'' “a paw”. Military In military tactics, a ''patrol'' is a sub-subunit or small tactical formation, sent out from a military organization by land, sea or air for the purpose of combat, reconnaissance, or a combination of both. The basic task of a patrol is to follow a known route with the purpose of investigating some feature of interest or, in the assignment of a ''fighting patrol'' (U.S. ''combat patrol''), to find and engage the enemy. A patrol can also mean a small cavalry or armoured unit, subordinate to a troop or platoon, usually comprising a section or squad of mounted troopers, or two armoured fighting vehicles (often tanks). Law enforcement In non-mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ships Built At Kuznya Na Rybalskomu
A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research, and fishing. Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity, and purpose. Ships have supported exploration, trade, warfare, migration, colonization, and science. After the 15th century, new crops that had come from and to the Americas via the European seafarers significantly contributed to world population growth. Ship transport is responsible for the largest portion of world commerce. The word ''ship'' has meant, depending on the era and the context, either just a large vessel or specifically a ship-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts, each of which is square-rigged. As of 2016, there were more than 49,000 merchant ships, totaling almost 1.8 billion dead weight tons. Of these 28% were oil tankers, 43% were bulk carriers, and 13% were con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Island (Ukraine)
Snake Island, also known as Serpent Island or Zmiinyi Island ( uk, острів Змії́ний, ostriv Zmiinyi; ro, Insula Șerpilor; russian: Змеиный, Zmeinyy), is an island belonging to Ukraine located in the Black Sea, near the Danube Delta, with an important role in delimiting Ukrainian territorial waters. The island has been known since classical antiquity, and during that era hosted a Greek temple to Achilles. Today, it is administered as part of Izmail Raion of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast. The island is populated, reported to have under 30 people in 2012. A village, Bile, was founded in February 2007 with the purpose of consolidating the status of the island as an inhabited place. This happened during the period in which the island was part of a border dispute between Romania and Ukraine from 2004 to 2009, during which Romania contested the technical definition of the island and borders around it. The territorial limits of the continental shelf around Snake Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Snake Island Campaign
On 24 February 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy attacked Snake Island, a Ukrainian island in the Black Sea, and captured it along with its entire garrison, beginning a military occupation of the island. The attack was widely publicized when an audio clip of Russian cruiser ''Moskva'' hailing the island's garrison over the radio demanding their surrender and being told "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" ( rus, 'Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй' , r=Russky voyenny korabl, idi na khuy) in response went viral, along with initial inaccurate reports of the garrison's deaths. Later on, it emerged that a civilian search and rescue ship trying to evacuate the soldiers was also captured along with the garrison. The ship, its crew, and at least one soldier were subsequently freed in prisoner exchanges. Following the island's capture, Ukraine launched a campaign against Russian forces on and around the island, deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Konashenkov
Lieutenant General Igor Yevgenyevich Konashenkov (russian: Игорь Евгеньевич Конашенков; born 15 May 1966) is a Russian military officer serving as the chief spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Early life Igor Konashenkov was born on 15 May 1966 in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union.Igor Konashenkov. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 30 June 2017. Career Konashenkov graduated with distinction from the engineering department of Zhytomyr Higher Military School of Radioelectronics of Air Defence in 1988. In 1998, he graduated from the Air Defence Military Academy. In 2006, he ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taras Chmut
Taras Mykolaiovych Chmut ( uk, Тарас Миколайович Чмут; born 13 October 1991) is a Ukrainian sergeant, volunteer, and military analyst who has worked as the head of the Come Back Alive charity since 2020. He previously served as an officer of the Ukrainian Marine Corps from 2015 to 2017, serving in the War in Donbas. Early life and career Taras Mykolaiovych was born in the city of Korostyshiv on 13 October 1991. His father was a businessman, while his mother was an employee of the United Nations Development Programme. At the age of 16, he founded the . He is a graduate of the National Aviation University, specialising in Complex Pilot-Navigational Equipment. Prior to the Russo-Ukrainian War, Chmut was the coordinator of transparency non-governmental organisation Opora in Zhytomyr Oblast. War in Donbas Following the beginning of the War in Donbas in 2014, Chmut began volunteering to assist the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the Ukrainian Military Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav, Kherson Oblast
Stanislav ( Ukrainian: ''Станіслав'') is a village in Kherson Raion western Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, with a population of around 4,724 inhabitants. It hosts the administration of Stanislav rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Geography The Village is located on the right bank of the Dnieper–Bug estuary. History Until 18 July, 2020, Stanislav belonged to Bilozerka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of Bilozerka Raion was merged into Kherson Raion. Stanislav came under Russian occupation during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. .... On November 10, Ukrainian forces liberated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021 Odesa's population was approximately In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location. The first chronicle mention of the Slavic settlement-port of Kotsiubijiv, which was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, dates back to 1415, when a ship was sent from here to Constantinople by sea. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, the port and its surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529, under the name Hacibey, and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. In 1794, the modern city of Odesa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihor Voronchenko
Ihor Oleksandrovych Voronchenko ( ua, Воронченко Ігор Олександрович; born 22 August 1964) is a Ukrainian Vice Admiral and a former commander of the Ukrainian Navy.Poroshenko appointed the commander of the Navy (3 July 2016)Zelensky taps Rear Admiral Neizhpapa to command Ukraine's Navy (Photo) |
Stepan Poltorak
Stepan Tymofiyovych Poltorak ( uk, Степан Тимофійович Полторак) is a Ukrainian general who served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 14 October 2014 until 29 August 2019. Previously he was the commander of the Internal Troops of Ukraine and National Guard of Ukraine.Turchynov proposes parliament appoint Poltorak as National Guard commander Interfax-Ukraine (19 March 2014) Poltorak's rank was General of the army of Ukraine. From 1 January 2019, Poltorak remained the country's defense minister as a civilian, after resigning from military service in October 2018. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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