“For the first time, our Armed Forces, in particular the Navy, will receive real weapons, missiles that will finally allow us to oppose something to the Russians in the Black and Azov Seas,” TASS quoted him as saying.

He also recalled that, according to the previously signed agreement, the UK should supply Ukraine with weapons as part of a £1.7 billion loan.

In July 2021, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made it his priority to build a powerful Ukrainian Navy with modern ships and weapons.