Nah they wouldn’t. It’s 95% finished, but it was such in 1993 when they were giving it to Ukraine, i imagine that despite Russia military condition is much better now the ship has likely deteriorated to the point it would need basically rebuilding. Also it’s quite obsolete by now, as Moskva example unfortunately proves, note that 2 of 3 those ships were used mostly as flagships because they are pretty big. Newer russian frigates are probably more battle worthy despite being less than half displacement.
About renaming, fun fact (though also sad): The current flagship of Pacific Fleet, Varyag, also a Slava class cruiser, was originally named Chervona Ukraina.
Sad that so many Soviet-built ships were destroyed while being used by nazis
Don’t look at data for Soviet carrier cruisers and especially science ships
Remember how they gloated at the sinking of “Moskva”? Less know fact is that Ukraine have cruiser of the same class for over 30 years (40 counting since start of the construction in Soviet Union) and didn’t even manged to complete it despite being nearly ready in 1991.
“Can’t properly count as a war loss if we never finish it”
Imagine if Russian navy takes it, fixes it and calls it Moskva 2
Nah they wouldn’t. It’s 95% finished, but it was such in 1993 when they were giving it to Ukraine, i imagine that despite Russia military condition is much better now the ship has likely deteriorated to the point it would need basically rebuilding. Also it’s quite obsolete by now, as Moskva example unfortunately proves, note that 2 of 3 those ships were used mostly as flagships because they are pretty big. Newer russian frigates are probably more battle worthy despite being less than half displacement.
About renaming, fun fact (though also sad): The current flagship of Pacific Fleet, Varyag, also a Slava class cruiser, was originally named Chervona Ukraina.