Moscow has often attacked Ukraine in the course of the 20-month-long war with Kalibr missiles. "I hope another ship has followed the Moskva!" Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of Ukraine's Air Force, said in a Telegram post, referring to the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship sunk b...
It said the ship was sunk in an overnight operation carried out by the "Group 13" special forces unit using Ukrainian-made Magura V5 maritime drones. It estimated the loss to Russia's navy of being in the region of $65 million. A video posted on social media by Ukraine's military inte...
South of the Kerch Strait, Ukraine has wreaked havoc in the Black Sea - despite the fact it does not have a traditional navy. Kyiv has been using sea drones and missiles to attack Russia's fleet and last month Ukraine claimedRussia had almost abandoned Crimea. Image:The 21-mile long Kerch...
President Volodymyr Zelenskiysaid Kyiv's increased ability to strike warships and diminish Russian surveillance options in the Black Sea have undermined Russia's war efforts and helped Ukraine to secure a shipping route to export its grain. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of Crimea, said...
The defeat of Kotov marks another success for Ukraine’s drone boat program, which has evolved rapidly since its first strikes in October of 2022, focusing on ships at port in Crimea. Following the sinking of the Tarantul III corvette Ivanovets on January 31 and Kunikov on Febuary 14...
On 29 December 2011 around 1220 UTC, submarine K-84 Ekaterinburg caught fire while in drydock in Murmansk, and after several hours of firefighting efforts, she was partially sunk in an effort to control the fire. Initial statements from Russian authorities indicate there were no injuries or ra...
1171 landing ship tank (LST) of which there are two assigned to the Black Sea Fleet. It was used to ferry vehicles so… if it sinks it partially blocks the port and significantly screws with Russian logistics…if. Could be quite an inconvenience, much more than if a corvette was sunk. ...
The reason they have sunk into this black pit of reaction is that the current regime is simply incapable of solving the country’s numerous political, social, and economic crises, because it has directly or indirectly generated nearly all of them, includingthe utter lawlessness in Krasnodar Territ...
The bridge represented the most visible aspect of Russian force projection in the seas around Crimea, and its opening was accompanied by a significant increase in Russian naval activity. Russian ships routinely detained commercial vessels traveling to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov, and in ...
Russia-Ukraine War; MoskvaThe missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, entering Sevastopol harbor in 2008. The Moskva was sunk by a Ukrainian missile strike in April 2022. The rapid advances made by Ukraine’smilitary-industrial complexwere perhaps most dramatically disp...