According to Ukrainian resources, on May 26, 2023, an official ceremony was held in Kiev for the commissioning of the eighth and last small armored artillery boat (MBAC) of project 58155 (code "Gyurza-M"), called "Bucha" (BK-08, factory number 01036) into the naval forces of Ukraine. The boat was built in Kiev at PJSC "Plant "Forge on Ribalskom" (former plant "Leninskaya Forge").
The eighth and last small armored artillery boat of project 58155 (code "Gyurza-M"), called "Bucha" (BK-08, factory number 01036), introduced into the Ukrainian Navy. Kyiv, 26.05.2023 (c) Ministry of Defense of UkraineThe ceremony of raising the flag of the Ukrainian Navy on the boat "Bucha" was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny.
This was the first public appearance of Zaluzhny after his "disappearance" in early May.
The eighth MBAC of project 58155 (BK-08, factory number 01036) was laid for the Ukrainian Navy at PJSC "Plant "Forge on Ribalskom" on February 8, 2019, but its construction was delayed and was carried out with repeated interruptions for financial and administrative reasons. The boat was launched on September 30, 2021, but its factory sea trials were started in Kiev only in February 2023. Apparently, the boat will soon remain part of the Ukrainian river forces on the upper Dnieper with a base in Kiev.
Earlier, the Kiev plant built seven MBAC project 58155 for the Ukrainian Navy with factory numbers 01023, 01024, 01028 - 01031 and 01034, which were commissioned in 2016-2020 - P 174 "Akkerman" (BK-01), P 175 "Berdyansk" (BK-02), P 176 "Nikopol" (BK-03), P 177 "Kremenchuk" (BK-04), P 178 "Lubni" (BK-05), P 179 "Vishgorod" (BK-06) and P 180 "Kostopil" (BK-07). Of these, by now only three remain in the Ukrainian fleet - Berdyansk, Nikopol and Kostopil. The boats Akkerman and Vishgorod were captured by Russian troops in Berdyansk on February 28, 2022. In April 2022, the Kremenchuk boat was captured by Russian troops in the port of Mariupol, and the Lubni boat was sunk there (raised by the Russian side in May).
The ceremony of the entry into the Ukrainian Navy of the eighth and last small armored artillery boat of project 58155 (code "Gyurza-M"), called "Bucha" (BK-08, factory number 01036). The ceremony was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny. Kyiv, 26.05.2023 (c) Ministry of Defense of UkraineVideo:
