By the fall of 2022, Russia intends to build a tanker for the needs of the Armed Forces of the country.
This is stated in the documentation on the official website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The press service of the department published a tender for the development of a “small offshore tanker of a new project.”
It is expected that the ship called Umba will be built on November 10, 2022. This year, it is planned to spend 50 million rubles on the project, in 2021 – 950 million, and in 2022 – 1 billion rubles.