Sunken Russian ship carried weapons and lost most of its crew, Ukraine says

The Russian Navy’s amphibious assault ship Black Sea what Ukraine claims to have been sunk with naval drones in a special operation, was loaded with weapons and had a crew on board, most of whom did not survive, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, GUR.

In a second statement, the GUR said the ship had been parked for ten days near a special berthing wall, from where the Russians “They load the ships with weapons and military equipment.”

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According to a preliminary visual assessment of the operation, the ship “it was carried during the sinking.”

The GUR spokesperson, Andri Yusov also told Ukrainian television Channel 24 that ‘most of the crew of the destroyed’Caesar Kunikov‘ he died. The ship sank and cannot be recovered”.

Hours before, the direction had already indicated in its first statement that ““The search and rescue operation for the (Russian) occupants was not successful.”

The ship was one of the newest in the Russian fleet and had the capacity to transport 87 crew members, as explained by GUR, which did not provide details about the number of soldiers who were on the ship at the time of the attack.

Ukrainian military intelligence assured that the ‘Caesar Kunikov‘was attacked by Ukrainian naval drones Magura V5 in an operation by Group 13 of the special forces of the direction.

As a result of the attack, the ship suffered significant holes on the port side and began to sink. sink.

Ukrainian military intelligence also assured that Russia confirmed the sinking through radio communications from pilots who flew over the area in helicopters to inspect it.

In this intercepted communication, the pilots would have stated that “They only saw one shipwreck and fuel stains.”

The Russian warship was destroyed in territorial waters that legally belong to the Ukraine Close of Alupkain the south of the occupied peninsula of Crimea.

The spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, Dmitro Pletchenchukin turn, he told the Radio Libertad network that only five of the 13 ships of the Russian Fleet remain in service in the Black Sea.

The ship sank direction and the Ukrainian Armed Forces were used by Russia in its wars in Ukraine, Syria It is Georgiaadded military intelligence Kyiv.

According to data from the Forces Armed Ukrainian, Russia It has lost a third of its fleet since the start of the war. Black Sea in Ukrainian attacks with drones or missiles.

Source: Elcomercio

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