Quote Originally Posted by dab69 View Post
Bullshit. It was constructed in USSR. By agreement btw Russia and all formerly Soviet republics Russia took on own account all debts of USSR in exchange on all USSR properties.

Ukraine has no money to pay for such ship. It is country-beggar. Even now (I mean pre-conflict time) it lives on donation. It had no one year after 2005 when it was profitable (I mean trade balance). Balance is always negative https://index.minfin.com.ua/economy/gdp/eximp/ (official site of ministry of finances)

Country of thieves and bribe takers - each new premier minister is worse when previous. Ukrainian premier minister Lazarenko even spend 10 years in the prison in US. That figure appears in a Transparency International Global Corruption report, in which the anti-graft agency ranked Lazarenko eighth out of the world's 10 most corrupt politicians in the previous two decades.

At least half of weapon and ammo that West sends to Ukraine, will be stolen and sold to different bandits groups worldwide. Like they sold ballistic missiles to Iran at past when Iran was under strict international sanctions, like they sold nuclear technologies to North Korea.

Every year army warehouses in Ukraine explodes and burns for to cover their criminal actions.

Ichnya 2018. 23 days of blasts and explosions: