Ukraine claims to have destroyed the Russian ship Novocherkassk in an attack on the Crimean peninsula | VIDEO

Ukraine today claimed to have destroyed another Russian ship, the “Novocherkassk”, in an attack against the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimeaannexed by Russia in 2014.

“This time, The large landing ship ‘Novocherkassk’ follows the flagship of the Russian Federation’s Black Sea Fleet, the ‘Moskvá‘, which was sunk in April 2022″, wrote the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Lieutenant General Mikola Oleschuk, on his Telegram channel.

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The soldier celebrated that the Russian fleet is “getting smaller” and thanked the Air Force pilots and everyone involved in the operation.

O Ukrainian Air Force indicated that the attack occurred at around 02:30 local time, when tactical aviation “attacked the large landing ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation with cruise missiles” Novocherkassk“In the region of Feodosia”, in the east of Crimea.

“The result is visible!”, he highlighted.

In the images published on Telegram it is possible to see a large fire in the port.

New images show the moment of the Ukrainian attack on the Russian Ropucha-class landing ship Novocherkassk in the port of Feodosia, Crimea. pic.twitter.com/Rzy6E1QQGr

– Clash Report (@clashreport) December 26, 2023

To the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine They explained in the same application that the “Novocherkassk” is a ship built for the USSR by socialist Poland between 1975 and 1991.

The first attempted attack on the Russian landing ship took place on March 24, 2022 in the port of the occupied city of Berjansk.

“Today the occupants’ ship was auctioned”the Ukrainian Defense Forces also celebrated on Telegram.

The last big blow to the Russian Black Sea Fleet It occurred last September, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the port city of Sevastopol with cruise missiles and damaged a landing ship and a submarine that were undergoing repairs at a shipyard.

Source: Elcomercio

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