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Found the name, Hetman Sahaidachny, a Krivak III Patrol Frigate
When Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, Ukraine's navy lost nearly all of its ships and most of its sailors quit or defected. By 2020, with help from its allies, Ukraine is slowly getting its sea legs back. This is the story of those who remained loyal to Ukraine and were forced to choose between family and country when they left Crimea. As they rebuilt their lives and their nation's fleet, rough waters lay ahead with Russia flexing its maritime muscle on the Black Sea.
Ukraine’s acting Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh described the combat readiness of the country’s armed forces as “unsatisfactory” in his 12 March 2014 report to the acting president. Tenyukh said recent exercises demonstrated a “dismal degree of preparedness among servicemen and lack of military specialists, equipment and weapons” in the Ground Forces, the Air Force and the Navy. As of March 1, only four vessels of the Ukrainian Navy were battle-ready: the Navy flagship Hetman Sahaydachniy, the Ternopil anti-submarine corvette, the Slavutych command ship and the Kostiantyn Olshansky large landing ship. “These ships are incapable of any actions threatening [Russia’s] Black Sea fleet,” the report read.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/vms.htm
She may have scuttled herself
On 14-21 March 2014, Hetman Sahaydachnyi frigate executed patrolling in Black Sea. The ship detected four military ships and two Mi-35 helicopters of Russian Black Sea Fleet, which made attempts to cross the naval frontier of Ukraine. Regardless the talks with ships commanders and their warning, Russian ships continued their movement. The Ukrainian ship was put on combat alert. The Frigate initiated the approach to ships-intruders to force them to leave the Ukrainian waters. Due to decisive and coordinated actions of frigate, Russian ships retreated. Ship armament was not used. “Hetman Sahaydachnyi crew proved their capability to accomplish tasks assigned,” Capt. 1st Rank Roman Pyatnytsky, Commander of Hetman Sahaydachnyi.
Equipment on the Hetman Sahaydachniy frigate, the flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, is old and most of it doesn’t even work, Yuri Biryukov, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, said 21 June 2015. Most equipment on the frigate is almost useless since it was built during Soviet times. "Everything there is as always and as everywhere in our army — the equipment is from the Soviet era. Nobody thought about energy efficiency, nobody thought about convenience. And yes, the ship right now is hellish hell, almost nothing works there," Biryukov said.
The cookhouse on the ship was in particularly bad shape. The refrigerators, heaters and water generator system were all out of working order. The crew prepared food on "the remains of the kitchen equipment," the senior adviser said. "The ship's water generator system never worked, it broke down in the early 1990s and the crew put a small American water distiller that still saves the ship. And do you know that a cube of fresh water in African ports cost $200? Sailors found this out while performing tasks off the coast of Somalia."
By July 2017 Ukrainian military prosecutors were suing the company charged with repairing the Hetman Sahaydachniy frigate, whose engines broke down soon after costly repairs. The Hetman Sahaydachniy, the flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, sat in Odessa port, left unfixed after suffering an engine casualty in May 2017, shortly after undergoing repairs. Military prosecutors in southern Ukraine initiated a lawsuit against the Leninskaya Kuznitsa Shipyard, a Nikolayev-based construction and repair facility owned by the Ukrainian president. Leninskaya Kuznitsa won a 14.5 million hryvnia ($561,000 US) tender for the repair of the ship, including its engine, in December. However, prosecutors complained that the ship's diesel engine propulsion system broke down almost immediately after repairs were said to be completed.
Senior military observer Konstantin Sivkov noted: "The thing is, the current Ukrainian authorities clearly understand that they are temporary, and are therefore using any means possible to build up their fortunes using major national projects. It must be understood that they have no interest in maintaining military equipment in fighting condition. Primitive schemes to siphon off, grab and escape with the money – that's the psychology and logic of Ukrainian authorities." And in this situation, "the Ukrainian Navy has no prospects".
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/sahaydachniy.htm