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The Zr.Ms. 'Vlaardingen' will be officially decommissionedon March 27, 2024, after 35 years of service with the Dutch Navy. The ship will be donated to Ukraine. The 'Vlaardingen' has been sailing longer than its planned lifespan. Last week, the ship cleared three more aircraft bombs from the bottom of the North Sea. From the summer until the end of 2023, the ship was also part of the permanent flotilla of mine countermeasures vessels SNMCMG1. The mine hunter was active in clearing mines, practicing mine countermeasures in a war situation and conducting patrols to protect the submarine infrastructure. Of the original fifteen mine hunters of the Alkmaar class, which were built in Alblasserdam, four are now still in Dutch service, the Zr.Ms. 'Makkum', 'Schiedam', 'Zierikzee' and 'Willemstad'. The navy will temporarily become a bit smaller, but in France, the Naval Group is building the new Dutch and Belgian mine countermeasures vessels. The 'Vlissingen', the first of the Dutch ships, was launched in 2023 and should enter Dutch service in 2025. In anticipation of this, the 'Vlaardingen' is being taken out of service, because personnel must be available for the new ships.

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The Ukraine is planning to auction the seized 'Royal Romance' of ex-MP Medvedchuk with a price tag estimated above 130 million Euros.The market value of the yacht will be determined by the organizer of the auction for its sale, who will be chosen by Ukraine's Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) after a competition. The insured value of the yacht was €137 million as of 2020. In 2015, the yacht was purchased for approximately €200 million. During these years, the vessel has been used, there is depreciation, so it was unlikely that the same amount can be expected at the time of sale. However, according to the documents that were seized during the arrest in 2022 and are currently kept by the Croatian police, in 2020 the yacht was insured for €137 million. The future auction organizer will hire an appraiser and officially determine the starting price of the 'Royal Romance', at which the asset will be put up for sale. The money from the sale of the yacht will go to the budget for strengthening defense capabilities. An English auction will be held, which will be announced again in the event of absence of buyers. The yacht has been under the management of ARMA for sale since April 2022. It took 1,5 years to approve the mechanism for its sale abroad, because it is impossible to deliver the yacht to Ukraine due to the war. In December 2022, ARMA had confirmation from four international auction houses that they were interested in selling the 'Royal Romance'. Ukraine handed over Medvedchuk to Russia in September 2022 in exchange for 200 soldiers captured in Mariupol.

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