“Right now we are creating a so-called 'mosquito' fleet ... What we are trying to do is to give these 'mosquitoes', so to speak, modern combat capabilities.
That is, I would like to see, at least next year, anti-ship missiles that will be installed on these small ships, ”UNIAN quotes him as saying.
He added that Ukraine does not have "real weapons that can stop an attack from the sea, an invasion from the sea."
He noted that with the help of the United States and Great Britain, Ukraine intends to receive several small ships of the "mosquito" fleet no later than next year.
Earlier, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, during a trip to the Odessa region on the occasion of the Day of the country's Navy, visited the American destroyer Ross, which takes part in the Sea Breeze maneuvers.