Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk

The Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk was the former Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy of the built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.

Service history

Black Sea incident

On 12 February 1988, under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Vladimir Bogdashin, the ship intentionally nudged the U.S. missile cruiser in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown was claiming innocent passage.

Ukrainian service

In summer of 1997 during the division of the Black Sea fleet she was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy, receiving the name of Dnipropetrovsk.

Fate

Dnipropetrovsk was decommissioned in 2002 and was scuttled in the Black Sea in the spring of 2005.