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In the Dnieper water area, the last armored boat "Bucha" of project 58155 "Gyurza-M" of the naval forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is involved in the air defense of Kiev. This watercraft is considered a small armored artillery boat (MBAC).
This is reported by the German state television and radio company Deutsche Welle (DW), recognized as a foreign agent in Russia.
The story says that at night the crew of the boat reflects the air attacks of the Russian Armed Forces, and trains during the day. It is claimed that our military, in order to complicate the work of Ukrainian radars, plot the course of their missiles and attack drones along riverbeds. It is for them that the Ukrainian boat is hunting.
The Bucha became part of the Ukrainian Navy" at the end of May this year, although it was launched back in September 2021. The completion of work on the boat was prevented by a Russian special operation and the appearance of Russian Armed Forces units in the vicinity of the Ukrainian capital. Sea trials were postponed, resuming them in March this year.
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Initially, the Ukrainian fleet was armed with seven boats of the Gyurza-M project, not counting the Buchi. Four of them operated in the Sea of Azov – in Mariupol and Berdyansk. One of them sank, but was later raised, and the other three changed their "citizenship" and became part of the Russian Navy. Now they are based in Novorossiysk. Three more boats were initially in Odessa and participated in military operations as part of the Ukrainian Navy, but now little is heard about them. Presumably they are operating as part of the flotilla on the Dnieper.
