There was no official response from the Russian defence ministry. (File)
Kyiv:
Ukraine claimed Tuesday that its forces had destroyed a Russian navy patrol boat on the Black Sea close to the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia 10 years in the past.
The strategic waterway has beceome an more and more necessary battleground of Russia’s two-year invasion as Ukrainian forces declare a string of assaults on Moscow’s fleet.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov mentioned the ship had been hit beforehand however was destroyed after the in a single day assault by maritime drones.
“As for the crew, the small print are being clarified. There are lifeless and wounded. However it’s probably that among the crew managed to evacuate,” he instructed Ukrainian media.
There was no official response from the Russian defence ministry.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence mentioned earlier that their drones struck the ship close to the Kerch Strait, inflicting “injury to the strict, starboard and port sides.”
The Ukrainian president’s chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, mentioned that Russia’s Black Sea fleet is “a logo of the occupation,” including that, “it can’t be in Ukraine’s Crimea”.
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