About ten MiG-29 Ukrainian Air Force, remaining on the territory of Crimea, irretrievably lost as combat units. The corresponding statement in an interview with RIA Novosti has made a State Duma deputy from Sevastopol, Dmitry Belik.
After, as the Crimea became part of Russia, on the peninsula is a few dozen ships and a dozen MiG-29 Ukraine, located on AFB "Belbeck". For all this, the technique has not been subjected to maintenance and repair, but only guarded by Russian soldiers.
According to Belik, currently MiG-29, the Air Force of Ukraine are completely unsuitable condition and represent a "pathetic". He also explained, Ukrainian aircraft that are located close to the sea, and for five years did not carry out preventive anti-corrosion work, as well as not to run them, and electrical motors.
"They do not resemble today hawks, and the lame ducks – chassis and wheel racks have outlived their. To date, they pass on cheaper scrap, than to repair ", - summed up the MP.
Also, he said,, that the Ukrainian aircraft will not be used as a donor for the repair of Russian aviation, as Russian pilots fly on modern and new cars.
"Our pilots fly on modern new machines, regularly serviced, and any whose donation, especially Ukrainian, we do not need ", - concluded Belik.
