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Saturday, February 21, 2009

U.S. warships handover to Ukrainian Navy doubtful

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has not considered the mechanisms of the transfer of the U.S. frigates to the Ukrainian Navy.

"The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has not considered any mechanisms of the transfer [of the U.S. frigates] to the Ukrainian Navy," the deputy head of the military cooperation department in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Ivan Kharchenko, told a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

According to earlier reports, in January U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor said he doubted that the issue of Ukraine purchasing U.S. Navy ships had been resolved.

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