The Russian Zvezda TV channel has shown a footage of the state of Ukrainian warships in occupied Crimea, which Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to return to Ukraine.
The video shows sea-sweepers Cherkasy and Chernihiv, as well as the Zaporizhia submarine and a rescue tug Kremenets.
It can be seen that over the years of annexation, the Ukrainian ships have become dilapidated and they are in bad condition. Some of them have rust and shabby paint.
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After the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Russia began to transfer captured equipment to Ukraine, but the transfer was suspended after Russia had invaded eastern Ukraine.
On April 15, 2014, the-then Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said that the Russian Defense Ministry suspended the transfer of weapons and military equipment from the occupied Crimea to Ukraine. At that time, 389 armored vehicles were transferred, including eight helicopters and three warships.
On July 5, Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Moscow had suspended the transfer until "complete termination of hostilities by Ukrainian forces".
To date, 17 ships, boats and ships have remained in Crimea, including 11 warships, with the large landing ship Kostyantyn Olshansky among them, the Slavutych command vessel, anti-submarine corvettes Ternopil and Lutsk, sea-sweepers Cherkasy and Chernihiv, the Zaporizhia submarine, a rescue tug Kremenets, and other vessels.