The Ukrainian frigate ''Dnipropetrovsk'' was the former Soviet frigate (

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) ''Bezzavetnyy'' of the (NATO codename: Krivak I) built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.

Service history

Black Sea incident

On 12 February 1988, under the command of Captain 2nd Rank

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, the ship intentionally nudged the U.S. missile cruiser in Soviet

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while ''Yorktown'' was claiming

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Ukrainian service

In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the

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, receiving the name of ''Dnipropetrovsk''.

Fate

''Dnipropetrovsk'' was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the

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in the spring of 2005.

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* Krivak-class frigates of the Ukrainian Navy 1977 ships Ships built at the Zalyv Shipbuilding yard Maritime incidents in 1988 Ships built in the Soviet Union Dnipro Cold War frigates of the Soviet Union {{Ukraine-mil-ship-stub