Occupants put a military boat for sale in Sevastopol

The occupiers in Crimea decided to sell a former torpedo boat of the Black Sea Fleet to the Russian Federation. The boat is at a berth in the Southern Bay of Sevastopol.

This was reported by Crimean Wind.

In Sevastopol, a torpedo boat TL-1539 of the 1388 Baklan project, which was previously part of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, was put up for sale.

The vessel is being sold as "usable residues" with a starting price of 1.68 million rubles. The boat is located at berth 58 in Yuzhnaya Bay.

TL-1539 was built at the Sosnovsky Shipyard and entered the fleet in 1985. During its service, it was part of the Caspian Flotilla, later the Baltic Fleet, and in the late 1990s was transferred to the Black Sea. Since 2005, the boat has been in reserve at the coastal base in Sevastopol.

Such vessels were used to search for and recover training torpedoes after firing. The stern of the torpedo boat has a ramp for receiving torpedoes from the water, and the mainmast has a cargo jib crane with a capacity of up to three tons.

The hospital ship Yenisei was also put up for sale in Sevastopol. The vessel 's mixed ferrous and non-ferrous scrap weighing 8,250 tons is estimated at about 25 million rubles. The vessel, built in 1980, served as part of the 5th Mediterranean and 8th Indian squadrons of the USSR Navy. It has not been at sea since 2011.

Recently, in Crimea, the Russians destroyed a large Ukrainian landing ship, the Konstantin Olshansky, which was captured in 2014. The ship was sent for repair to the occupiers' shipyard, but its condition raises serious doubts. All that remains of the ship is an empty hull with no doors or equipment, and all the important systems necessary for its functioning have been taken away or looted.

Анна Бальчінос