Ukraine says it has destroyed 15 Russian naval vessels in Black Sea throughout conflict

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s army stated on Friday its operations had resulted within the destruction of a complete of 15 Russian naval vessels within the Black Sea for the reason that begin of Russia’s invasion and that 12 different vessels had been broken.

Ukraine has stepped up its assaults within the Black Sea and on Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed in 2014. Kyiv has reported a collection of strikes on warships on and close to Crimea this autumn, together with a big touchdown vessel and a submarine.

“You can count the ones that have already been disabled. These are 15 destroyed and 12 damaged ships. Not all of this is the result of drone work, but they also have quite a lot of damaged ships to their credit,” navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk stated in televised feedback. He described Ukraine as “the driver of a new type of naval warfare” that had made Russia transfer its naval forces to positions tougher to achieve for what Kyiv has in its capability.

Russia can be struggling logistical issues, he stated, attributable to having to relocate vessels to Novorossiysk and periodically to Tuapse, each ports on the jap flank of the Black Sea to the southeast of Crimea and farther from Ukraine.

Ukraine’s army stated its operations carried out within the Black Sea up to now have included strikes on the Russian Black Sea Navy headquarters in Sevastopol and the shipyard in Kerch, which broken a vessel that had not but joined the fleet.