Ukrainian Sea Guard

Ukrainian Sea Guard
Country	Ukraine
Type	Coast guard
Role	Coastal defense, maritime law enforcement
Part of	SBGS (2003–present)
Colors	Blue, Yellow
Anniversaries	28 May
Engagements	2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
Commanders
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine	LTG Viktor Nazarenko
Insignia
Racing Stripe
Ensign
Penant

Ukrainian Sea Guard (Ukrainian: Морська охорона, Mors’ka Okhorona; full name Морська охорона Державної прикордонної служби України, Sea Guard of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine) is the coast guard service of Ukraine, subordinated to its Border Guard Service.^[1]

Sea Guard vessels bear the Морська охорона inscription on their boards.

Ukrainian Sea Guard is the local successor of the Soviet Border Troops Naval Units that have been similarly responsible for coast guard tasks. However, there were some interchanges in units, ships and personnel between Sea Guard and the Ukrainian Navy.

Service persons of the Sea Guard wear either the black uniform similar to Ukrainian Navy, but decorated with some green elements (traditional for border guard), or a common uniform of the Border Guard.

Organization

The Sea Guard operates four sea guard detachments: in Balaklava, Odessa, Izmail and Kerch; a sea guard cutters division in Mariupol; a special-purpose sea guard cutters division in Yalta; and a riverine Dnieper sea guard cutters division in Kiev. Sea guard administration is split between the Azov-Black seas regional administration in Simferopol and the Southern regional administration in Odessa.

Squads of Marine Security

• Kerch Squad of Marine Security (from the Cape of Mehanom across the strait of Kerch and the Sea of Azov to administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions)
• Yalta Squad of Marine Security (special assignment)
• Sevastopol Squad of Marine Security (Main base in Balaklava)
• Odessa Squad of Marine Security (Southern regional administration)

Battle fleet

Major vessels, list is incomplete.^[2]

Class	Photo	Type	Ships	Origin	Commissioned	Note
Warships (1 in service)
Pauk		Anti-submarine corvettes	BG-50 Hryhoriy Kuropyatnykov	Yaroslavl	1984
Fast attack crafts (11 in service)
Stenka		Patrol boat	BG-30 Heroyi Kerchi BG-31 Bukovyna BG-32 Donbas BG-57 Mykolaiv BG-60 Odesa BG-63 Pavlo Derzhavin	Almaz	? 1981 1982 1988 ? 1987	BG-31 Bukovyna is possible lost to Russia
Muravey		Anti-submarine hydrofoil	BG-55 Halychyna	More	1994
Shmel		River gunboats	BG-81 Lubny BG-82 Kaniv BG-83 Nizhyn BG-84 Izmayil	Soviet Union	1972 1971 1968 1969
Cutters
Zhuk 1400M (Grif)		Patrol gunboat	BG-100 508 BG-101 525 BG-102 Obolon BG-103 511 BG-104 512 BG-108 517 BG-109 Nemyriv BG-110 Liubomyr BG-111 Odesa BG-115 523 BG-117 Vatutinets	/ More	? ? ? ? ? ? 1992 ? 1992 ? 1993
Zhuk 1400A (Gurzuf)		Patrol gunboat	BG-54 Kryvyi Rih	Batumi	1989[3]	Possibly lost to Russia
Orlan		Patrol gunboat	BG-200 Balaklava	More	2012	[4]
UMS 1000		Patrol cutters	7 boats	Kiev	2015	series of small patrol cutters developed by the UMS boats
Kalkan		Patrol cutters	BG-305 BG-504	More	? 1997
Kalkan-P		Patrol cutters	BG-10	Mykolaiv	2006
Katran		Patrol cutter	BG-820	Soviet Union	1994	Possibly lost to Russia
Chaika		Patrol boats	BG-01 Krym[5]	Almaz	1978
Auxiliary ships (1 in service)
Oniks		Schooner	BG-58 Oniks	Turkey

Decommissioned, sold, destroyed

Class	Photo	Type	Ships	Origin	Commissioned	Decommissioned
Battle ships (2)
Pauk		Anti-submarine corvettes	BG-52 Hryhoriy Hnatenko BG-51 Poltava	Yaroslavl	1987 1987	Both ships were ready to be decommissioned and were left in Balaklava after the Russian annexation of Crimea;[6] their fate is unknown
Battle cutters (7)
Stenka		Patrol boats	BG-56 Volyn BG-61 Zakarpattia BG-62 Podillya	Almaz	? ? 1983
Zhuk 1400M (Grif)		Patrol cutters	BG-119 BG-118 Arabat BG-116 Darnytsia	/ More	? 1994 1993	2014; BG119 and BG118 were destroyed near Mariupol by the Russian forces; BG116 was immobile since 2012
Zhuk 1400A (Gurzuf)		Patrol cutters	BG-53 Lviv	Batumi	1989[7]	Lost to Russia
Auxiliary ships (1)
Grafenau[8]		Command ship	BG-80 Dunai	Linz	1942	2011; transferred to Izmail Naval Lyceum

Future

From 2012 to 2014 there were, plans are to build 39 small guard ships of different classes, including 6 Korall-class^[9] and 8 Orlan-class ships. From 2015 onward, there are plans to build a multipurpose guard ship, with displacement around 1000 tons, which can carry one helicopter.^[4][10]

References

External links

• (Ukrainian) Sea Guard page on the official site of Border Guard Service
• (English) Sea Guard of the State Border Service of Ukraine

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