Two British Sandown-class minesweeping ships are to be transferred to the Ukrainian Naval Forces in coming months, part of a wider, £1.25 billion UK-Ukraine agreement to upgrade Ukraine’s navy

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

. In a memorandum signed Monday aboard the HMS Defender, a British destroyer docked in Odesa, Ukraine is to receive the Sandown minesweepers, a class also used by navies of Estonia and Saudi Arabia.

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