“On the morning of September 14, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked two Project 22160 Vasil Bykov patrol ships of the Russian occupation fleet in the southwestern part of the Black Sea,” said a brief statement from the Ukrainian Strategic Communications Center on the attack on the Soviet Union . two ships.
“There was some damage,” the official note concluded, without further details.
Russia uses these types of ships to defend Crimea against Ukrainian attacks by sea and to hinder commercial shipping to Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea.
This attack is the third reported in two days by Ukrainian forces against Russian ships and strategic infrastructure in Crimea and the Black Sea.
Military intelligence and the Ukrainian Navy today also claimed the destruction of a Russian Triumf missile system in western Crimea.
The day before, the Ukrainian air force said Ukrainian missiles caused damage to a landing ship and to a submarine from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet docked at a shipyard in Sevastopol, which also suffered damage.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has used naval and air missiles and drones to attack Russian bases in Crimea and warships in the Russian fleet near the coast of that occupied peninsula.
Kiev is thus trying to get closer to its objectives, namely disrupting Russian lines of communication while the counter-offensive takes place in the south of the country, recapturing Crimea and restoring freedom of navigation in the Black Sea, whose blockade by Russia deprived Ukrainian exports and imports of goods. access to the sea.
Ukrainian authorities had promised the Russians “new surprises” in Crimea, which will mark ten years of annexation of the territory in March next year.
The military offensive that Russia launched in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 caused the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II (1939-1945), according to the most recent UN data.
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by most of the international community, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and impose political and economic sanctions on Russia.
Source: DN
