List of active Ukrainian Navy ships
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This is a list of vessels used by Ukrainian Navy. It includes main naval ships and cutters which are in service or were recently unlisted in the Ukrainian Navy as well as the auxiliary fleet, and lists ships' project numbers where a written class is unavailable or not notable – these are used by the designers to note each ship's type. As of December 2007, the Navy had 27 combat ships and cutters.[1] Some 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the main warships of the Ukrainian Navy are former Black Sea Fleet vessels that were designed and built in the Soviet Union.

Having several shipyards on its territory, the shipbuilding industry of Ukraine was mostly stalled after the fall of the Soviet Union. Following the Orange Revolution, on 9 August 2005 the Cabinet of Ukraine allocated some funding for the first major national program "Corvette" that was initiated by Minister of Defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko. The first warship-class built in the independent Ukraine was expected to produce its first vessel in 2016.[2][3]
As of 24 March 2014, all of the larger ships but one (the Ukrainian frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy) of the Ukrainian Navy were captured by the Russian Black Sea Fleet.[4] Some ships Russia returned to Ukraine (35 vessels in total).[5] In 2015 Ukraine received 5 small (7 and 11 meter aluminum) Willard Marine patrol boats; the original order was placed in 2013.[6][7]
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the frigate Hetman Sahaidachny was scuttled by her crew[8] and at least a dozen ships were reported captured or destroyed.[9][10] In June 2022, the Navy announced that a number of boats had been mobilised, equipped for military needs and inducted into their newly announced river flotilla of 19 vessels; at least 8 vessels not previously known to be in the Navy were shown in the accompanying videos (one of which was previously a pleasure boat[11]).[12] Along with these 8 were 2 unidentified RIBs (which may have been pre-existing Navy vessels), 1 unidentified harbour patrol vessel and 1 other unidentified vessel. The 8 identified vessels are listed below,[13][14] although it is possible that the 2 PO-2 boats among them were pre-existing Navy vessels which had their pennant numbers painted over. A subsequent video announcing the inclusion of a SHERP the Shuttle landing craft in the flotilla showed at least 2 more unidentified harbour patrol vessels.[15] In 2022 Ukraine start developing MAGURA V5 drones, they became operational in 2023.[16]
Surface fleet
Commissioned vessels of the Ukrainian Navy are listed below. This does not include minor non-commissioned vessels such as riverine patrol boats, rigid hull inflatable boats or unmanned surface vehicles.
| Surface fleet | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amphibious warfare (1) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Kentavr
Project 58181 |
Malyn | L452 | 2019 | 47 | Fast attack craft | Ochakiv | Current status unknown.
Failed to pass state tests as of 6 February 2022. In commission with the Navy since 2019, but not included in its active combat fleet at that time.[17][18] Between then and April 2022, accepted into active service.[19]
| |
| Mine warfare (1 + 5) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Sandown | Chernihiv | M310 | 2023 | 590 | Minehunter | Indefinitely based in the United Kingdom due to the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits.[21] | Former Royal Navy ships HMS Grimsby and HMS Shoreham.
Former Royal Netherlands Navy ships HNLMS Vlaardingen (M863) and HNLMS Makkum (M857).[22] Former Belgian Navy ship BNS Narcis (M923).[22] Ships remain in the United Kingdom indefinitely under contracts with Babcock International.[23][24][25][26][27][28] | |
| Cherkasy | M311 | |||||||
| Tripartite | Melitopol | M312 | 2025 | 510 | ||||
| Mariupol | M313 | 536 | ||||||
| Henichensk | M314 | 510 | ||||||
| Bereza
Project 130[29] |
Balta | M361 | 1987 | 2,096 | Minehunter | Odesa | Former Soviet Navy degaussing ship with pennant U811.[30] Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea in April 2014[31]
Damaged in a storm after hitting the pier at Snake Island in 2021.[32] Returned to service in 2022. | |
| Coastal & fast patrol (15) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Matka
Project 206MR[33] |
Pryluky | P153 | 1980 | 257 | Patrol boat | Odesa | Converted into a patrol boat with the removal of its P-15 Termit anti-ship missile launch capability.[34][35] | |
| Zhuk
Project 1400M[36] |
Skadovsk | P170 | 1990 | 39.7 | Current status unknown.
In refit in Mykolaiv as of late 2021.
| |||
| PO-2
Project 376[37] |
AK-03 | P171 | 1972 | 46.4 | Ochakiv | [38][39][better source needed]
1 unidentified PO-2 small patrol gunboat destroyed by a Russian ZALA Lancet strike no later than 17 April 2023[40][41] | ||
| Rivne | P172 | |||||||
| AK-02 | P173 | 1973 | ||||||
| Gyurza-M
Project 58155 |
Berdyansk | P175 | 2016 | 54 | Odesa | Berdyansk and Nikopol captured in the Kerch Strait incident and returned to the Ukrainian Navy on 18 November 2019.[42] | ||
| Nikopol | P176 | 2018 | Damaged by a Russian Lancet loitering munition while patrolling the Dnieper River in November 2022.[43][44]
Returned to service in the Ochakiv area in June 2023 after repairs.[45] | |||||
| Kostopil | P180 | 2020 | ||||||
| Bucha | P181 | 2023 | Kyiv | |||||
| NAVY 18 WP | Irpin | P182 | 2024 | Odesa | Current status unknown.
One vessel possibly damaged in combat in 2024.[46] Former Estonian Navy ship. Transferred to the Ukrainian Navy in 2024.[47][48] | |||
| Reni | P183 | |||||||
| Island | Starobilsk | P191 | 2019 | 164 | Former US Coast Guard cutters USCGC Drummond, USCGC Ocracoke and USCGC Washington[49]
Unidentified Island-class patrol boat damaged in a Russian Lancet strike in March 2024 near Mykolaiv.[50] | |||
| Sumy | P192 | 2021 | ||||||
| Fastiv | P193 | |||||||
| Flamingo
Project 1415[51] |
Hola Prystan | P241 | 1986 | 57 | [52] | |||
Auxiliary fleet
| Auxiliary fleet | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence & research (1) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Muna
Project 1824B[53] |
Pereyaslav | A512 | 1986 | 912 | Spy ship | Ochakiv | Possibly damaged in combat in 2022. | |
| Transport & supply (6) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Project 1849[54] | Horlivka | A753 | 1965 | 2,178 | Freight ship | Ochakiv | Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea in April 2014[31] | |
| Project 1430 | Chornomorsk | A783 | 1976 | 99.7 | Crew supply vessel | Odesa | Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea by June 2014 (inclusive) at the latest[55] | |
| Sura
Project 419 |
Shostka | A852 | 3,151.4 | AHTS vessel | Laid up.
Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea in April 2014[31] | |||
| Project 1387[56] | Korosten | A853 | 1965 | 52.5 | Dispatch cutter | Laid up. | ||
| Bryza
Project 772U[57] |
Dobropillya | A854 | 1975 | 142.6 | Ochakiv | Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea by June 2014 (inclusive) at the latest[58] Previously a training boat[59] | ||
| Pivdennyi | A855 | 1974 | Odesa | |||||
| Search & rescue (2) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Project 2262 | Oleksandr Okhrimenko | A715 | 1987 | 2,258 | Search and rescue vessel | Odesa | In refit.
In refit at Nibulon Shipyard as of 2021. | |
| Project SK620[60] | Sokal | A782 | 1983 | 235.9 | Ambulance vessel | |||
| Diving support (6) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Yelva
Project 535M[61] |
Netishyn | A700 | 1973 | 285 | Diving support vessel | Odesa | ||
| Pochaiv | A701 | 1975 | ||||||
| Flamingo
Project 1415[51] |
Volodimir Volinsk | A721 | 1983 | 43.2 | Odesa | Laid up. | ||
| Romni | A732 | 1980 | Laid up.
Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea on 3 May 2014[62] | |||||
| PO-2
Project 376[37] |
RVK-258 | A724 | 1968 | 38.2 | ||||
| A734 | 1974 | 46.89 | ||||||
| Tug (1) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Prometey
Project 498[63] |
Jani Kapu | A947 | 1974 | 303 | Seagoing tug | Odesa | Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea by June 2014 (inclusive) at the latest[64] Vessel recaptured in the Kerch Strait incident and returned to the Ukrainian Navy on 18 November 2019[42] | |
| Training (2) | ||||||||
| Class | Ship | No. | Image | Commissioned | Displacement | Type | Homeport | Note |
| Petrushka
Project UK-3[65] |
Smila | A541 | 1985 | 345.4 | Training boat | Odesa | Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea by June 2014 (inclusive) at the latest[64] | |
| Nova Kakhovka | A542 | 1986 | ||||||
| Special purpose boats and barges (3) | ||||||||
| Project 20641 | Baikal | 1984 | 1,101.16 | Water barge | ||||
| Project 889A[66] | Plavmasterskaja | 1983 | 1,354[67] | Float ship/repair barge | ||||
| Project 50479 | PZh-61[68] | 2020 | - | Floating dock | ||||
Non-commissioned vessels
A number of non-commissioned auxiliary vessels are used for a number of littoral and support purposes.
| Class | Photo | Type | Ships | Displacement[a] | Shipyard | Commissioned | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CB90 | Patrol boat | 3 vessels | 20 | 2025 | [69] | ||
| 40 PB[b][70] | Small patrol boats | 6 vessels[71] | N/a | 2020/2022–2022/2022[72] | In June 2022, 6 40-foot maritime combat patrol boats were announced as part of a package of 18 coastal and riverine patrol boats to be drawn down from US stocks and sent to Ukraine by the United States.[73][74] Metal Shark later confirmed the boats were of this class.[70] Boats of this class were not previously announced to be joining the Ukrainian Sea Guard[75] | ||
| Sea Ark Dauntless | Small patrol boats | 10 vessels[c] | 11 | 2002/2022–2011/2022 | Announced as part of a package of 18 coastal and riverine patrol boats to be sent to Ukraine by the United States[73] | ||
| Small unit riverine craft | Small patrol boats | 2 vessels[c] | 9.82 | 2004/2022–2005/2022[80] | Announced as part of a package of 18 coastal and riverine patrol boats to be sent to Ukraine by the United States[73] | ||
| SHERP the Shuttle[81] | Small landing craft[82] | 1 vessel[15] | 12.88[83] | N/a | 2022[d][15] | ||
| Uisko | Small landing craft | 3 vessels | 10 | 2024 | [84] | ||
| Metal Shark | Rigid inflatable, 7-metre speed boats | 10 vessels | N/a | 2021[85] | |||
| Wing | RIB | 74 vessels | N/a | 2021[85] | |||
| Willard | RIB | 2 vessels of type Sea Force 11M 3 vessels of type Sea Force 730 2 vessels of type Sea Force 7M | 4 3 3 | 2015[86][87]
2010[88] |
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| Chibis (project 14100) | Small rescue boat[89][better source needed] | 1 vessel[11] | 2.2[90] | Mobilised in 2022. Previously a pleasure boat[11] | |||
| Richkovi tramva[e] | Supply vessels[11][91] | N/a | Unknown | Mobilised in 2022. | |||
| (project 371) | Crew cutters | U500-5[f][g][92][better source needed] | 9.83 | Unknown | Vessels returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea by June 2014 (inclusive) at the latest[92][93] | ||
| A001 Admiralsky[f] | 1984 | ||||||
| A927 RK-1039[h][94] | 8.87 | Unknown | |||||
| Aist (project 1398B) | Small patrol boats | A905 RK-1720[95][better source needed][96] | 20 | 1991 | |||
| Head no. 9008[97][better source needed] | 1990 | ||||||
| Sokolenok (project 1404)[99] | Harbour patrol | A237[93] | 8.8 | Unknown | |||
| Strizh (project 1390) | Harbour patrol | U500-4[i][g][100][better source needed] | 3.2 | N/a | Unknown | Vessel returned to the Ukrainian Navy from Crimea by June 2014 (inclusive) at the latest[93] |
Prospective additions
In November 2022, the US pledged 40 armored river boats of unspecified type (from industry).[101] By May 2023, this number had risen to 44.[102] In March 2023, Germany pledged 10 unmanned surface vessels of unspecified type to Ukraine.[103]
| Class | Photo | Type | Ships | Displacement[a][j] | Number | Shipyard | Origin | Designed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awaiting delivery | |||||||||
| Island[104] | Patrol boats | P194 Viacheslav Kubrak[105] | 168 | 3 | Bollinger Shipyards | Was to be received in January 2022 after being tested,[49][106][107] but as of 17 June 2022, delivery is not yet completed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine[108] | |||
| Unknown | Announced as military aid to be sent to Ukraine by the United States; 2 more boats were planned for inclusion in a 7-strong division of Ukraine’s Island-class patrol boats prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine[49] | ||||||||
| Unknown | |||||||||
| Fleet-class unmanned surface vessel[k] | Unmanned surface vehicles | Unknown | 7.6 | Unknown | AAI Corporation | Unmanned surface vehicles announced as military aid to be sent to Ukraine by the United States in April 2022[109] | |||
| Under construction | |||||||||
| Ada | Corvettes | Hetman Ivan Mazepa[110][111] Laid down in 2021[112][110] |
2362.10 | 2 | Okean Shipyard | Contract signed (2020);[113] first ship to enter service in 2024[112] Hetman Ivan Mazepa launched in October 2022[114] | |||
| Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky Laid down in 2023[115] | Contract signed (2020)[113] | ||||||||
| Mark VI patrol boat | Patrol boats | 2 under construction[116] 10 to be completed and delivered to the Navy by 2026[117] |
63.97 | 10-16 | SAFE Boats International | Up to 16 may be acquired for 600 mln dollars, details are being discussed[118] 10 ordered so far[119] | |||
See also
Notes
- Full load (in long tons)
- Also known as 40 Defiant
- In November 2022, the Ukrainian Navy released footage of at least one unidentified patrol boat which they claimed was in the Black Sea.[76] Military analyst Taras Chmut implied that all 18 manned patrol boats initially pledged to Ukraine by the US were in service.[77] Upon finding evidence that the 40 PB-class small patrol boats were in service, the Ukrainian publication Telegraf had earlier speculated that the other manned patrol boats initially pledged to Ukraine by the US were probably in service[78] Later that month, Militarnyi confirmed that Sea Ark Dauntless boats were in active service.[79]
- Assuming this boat was not previously in civilian commission
- project 371U
- U500-4 and U500-5 were boats of A500 Donbas, and were likely stationed with it when it was captured during the annexation of Crimea. In addition to the 33 named vessels out of the 35 confirmed to have been returned from Crimea, two unspecified smaller boats were returned. U500-4 and U500-5 remain in service and were probably the two boats in question.
- project 371bis
- project 13901
- Figures apply for individual, finished vessels of these types, and are accurate to no more than 2 decimal places
- The most likely class of unmanned surface vehicles to be delivered[109]
- Construction of both vessels to be finished in Turkey