Ukraine



I admit to knowing nothing about ships. Would these be the equivalent to the Russian cruisers?

NO, they have been sitting, having been retired for about 10 years. They are made to shoot missiles which are not made anymore. And the US has deemed that they cannot be upgraded to fire the new missiles.

Short of a complete rebuild which includes fitting them for a new tasking role, they would each be about 4 thousand ton heaps of gleaming scrap metal.

I would think with the aluminum content they would be valuable heaps of scrap metal.