page_title: Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk
section_title: Black Sea incident
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk / Service history / Black Sea incident
context_page_description: The Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk was a former Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy of the Burevestnik-class ship built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.
context_section_description: On 12 February 1988 the ship intentionally nudged the U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown was claiming innocent passage.
caption: Bezzavetnyy shown colliding with Yorktown
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