The Ukrainian navy has just received its first new anti-ship battery. The prototype Neptune missile system, which the Kyiv State Design Bureau handed over on Monday, signals a wide-reaching effort to harden the Ukrainian coast against Russian attack.
Defense minister Andrei Taran was on hand—presumably in Kyiv—to accept the Neptune system. “Thanks to the joint work of the defense ministry and state-owned enterprises, it was possible to manufacture weapons of a new generation and increase the deterrent potential and increase Ukraine’s influence at sea,” Taran said.
