KYIV. Oct 30 (Interfax-AVN) - The Ukrainian Navy's Ternopol corvette has left Sevastopol for Greece, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry press-service told Interfax-AVN on Monday.
"In the course of the voyage the Ternopol will discharge a number of combat training tasks, for instance, air defense, hunting down a submarine, operation in adverse environment, and damage control," a press-service official said.
According to him, the corvette will also conduct training, pertaining to civil navigation monitoring, gathering and recording data on suspicious vessels, escorting vessels, carrying crucial cargo, and sweeping mines for civil navigation.
The Ternopol will conduct a joint exercise with the Italian Chikalo corvette in the Mediterranean, the press-service said.
The Ukrainian ship is bound for Greece's Suda Bay naval base.
The Ternopol will pay a visit to the Greek naval base, which is to last until November 24, within the framework of the international cooperation plan of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for 2006.
The Ternopol corvette was fielded with the Ukrainian Navy in February 2006. It was built at the Kyiv-based Leninskaya Kuznitsa shipyard. The Ternopol is the first ship to have entered the inventory of the Ukrainian Navy since 1994.
The corvette has a length of 71 m, a beam of ten meters, a displacement of 950 tonnes, and a speed of 30 knots.