gCaptain is reporting that two Ukrainian Coast Guard Cutters have been attacked by pro-Russian rebels.
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gCaptain is reporting that two Ukrainian Coast Guard Cutters have been attacked by pro-Russian rebels.
More details here: http://news.usni.org/2014/09/02/two-ukrainian-patrol-boats-shelled-artillery-one-sunk
Apparently one of the patrol boats was sunk while the other was damaged. The boats were reportedly 78 foot long Zhuk class patrol vessels with a crew of ten or eleven. Two crew members are missing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuk_class_patrol_boat
I hate to be negitive, but I think its giing to hit the fan, but what I’m concerned about, if it does happen, will China and N. Korea start trouble in the western Pacific?
More detail from Janes 360: http://www.janes.com/article/42597/ukrainian-patrol-ship-sunk-by-artillery-fire
This from the German Navy blog, Marine Forum, “7 March, UKRAINE – RUSSIA, Ukrinian MoD reportedly negotiating with the USA for (free) transfer of decommissioned US Coast Guard boats … also in talks with European countries for corvettes and minesweepers “at the lowest possible price”.”