Rogozin admits Ukrainian crisis hurting frigate programmes

摘要

Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin has acknowledged that the construction of surface ships for the Russian Navy has "idled" due to the nondelivery of gas turbine engines from Ukraine. Kiev suspended military-technical co-operation with Moscow in April 2014 and formally voided their bilateral treaty in May 2015. Rogozin's 29 May comments follow those by United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) vice-president Igor Ponomarev on 23 May in which he said that the Yantar shipyard had only received engines for the first three of six Project 11356 Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates from Ukrainian manufacturer Zorya-Mashproyekt.