L’Ucraina presenta la sua nuova nave corvetta “Hetman Ivan Mazepa” con armamenti all’avanguardia

Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa[a] (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Мазепа; Polish: Iwan Mazepa Kołodyński; 30 March [O.S. 20 March] 1639 – 2 October [O.S. 21 September] 1709)[2] was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708. The historical events of Mazepa’s life have inspired many literary, artistic and musical works. He was famous as a patron of the arts.

Mazepa played an important role in the Battle of Poltava (1709), where after learning that Tsar Peter I intended to relieve him as acting Hetman (military leader) of Zaporozhian Host (a Cossack state) and to replace him with Alexander Menshikov, he defected from his army and sided with King Charles XII of Sweden. The political consequences and interpretation of this defection have resonated in the national histories both of Russia and of Ukraine.

The Russian Orthodox Church laid an anathema (excommunication) on Mazepa’s name in 1708 and still refuses to revoke it. The anathema was not recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which considers it uncanonical and imposed with political motives as a means of political and ideological repression, with no religious, theological or canonical reasons.[3]

Pro-independence and anti-Russian elements in Ukraine from the 18th century onwards were derogatorily referred to as Mazepintsy (Russian: Мазепинцы, lit. ’Mazepists’).[4][5] The alienation of Mazepa from Ukrainian historiography continued during the Soviet period, but post-1991 in independent Ukraine Mazepa’s image has been gradually rehabilitated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Mazepa

“According to preliminary data, the corvette will be armed with American Harpoon anti-ship missiles, MBDA VL MICA short-range anti-aircraft missile system, Leonardo Super Rapid 76-mm artillery installation, Millennium 35-mm anti-aircraft system, 12.7 mm Aselsan STAMP machine gun installations and 324 mm torpedo tubes with MU90 Impact anti-submarine torpedoes. Also, the corvette will be able to take on board one helicopter.

The Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vice Admiral Oleksii Neizhpapa, previously stated that the corvette would enter the Ukrainian Navy in 2024.”

Hope it gets to go Orc hunting with the air coverage of F-16s! Would love to see this ship reigning steel down on the orcs!

I know these were in construction long before the full scale invasion started but it is kind or funny that Ukraine has made them almost obsolete before they ever are commissioned into the navy. Yes still lots of uses for them but the risks to them have gone up significantly when Russia starts copying the Ukrainian sea drones.