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12 June 2023
by Kate Tringham
Bucha
has been assigned to the river flotilla based on the Dnipro river in Kiev region.
(Ministry of Defence, Ukraine)
Ukraine has commissioned its eighth Gurza-M (Viper-M) missile-armed riverine patrol boat into service.
The new boat, named
Bucha
(P 181), has been assigned to the river flotilla based on the Dnipro river in Kiev region, which was established in 2022.
Bucha
started construction at Kuznia na Rybalskomu (previously Leninska Kuznia) shipyard in Kiev in 2019 and was launched on 30 September 2021. Following the completion of its factory and state trials earlier in 2023, the boat was commissioned into service on 26 May, according to Ukraine Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) press service Armyinform
.
Bucha
forms part of a series of up to 20 planned Gurza-M patrol boats that started entering service from 2016 for deployment in the Danube River Basin and in the coastal zone of the Black and Azov seas.
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