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Ukraine said Thursday it used naval drones to take out two Russian naval vessels.
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Footage shows a drone passing through heavy air fire and attacking a patrol warship.
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It is the latest Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which has been forced to disperse.
Images shared by Ukraine’s intelligence service on Thursday showed two of its naval drones attacking Russian naval vessels near Crimea.
The video, shared by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, shows a naval drone dodging Russian fire before exploding next to a Russian patrol ship.
Ukrainian intelligence said the attack on the two ships was carried out using Magura V5 drones, and Russia tried to neutralize the drones using fighter jets, artillery and small arms.
However, they failed to stop them from completing their mission, the report said.
Business Insider could not independently verify the details of the attack.
The claimed attack is just the latest example of Ukraine’s devastating use of naval drones against Russian naval assets in the Black Sea.
In November, Ukraine said its naval drones struck and sank two landing ships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet at a port on the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Ukraine stepped up naval drone attacks in February, with one strike disabling the warship Ivanovets with naval drones powered by jet skis, and another causing the explosion of the Black Sea Fleet’s Project 775 Ropucha-class landing ship, the Caesar Kunikov, according to Ukrainian intelligence. at the time.
A month later it said it had sunk the Sergei Kotov with a naval drone.
Despite not having a proper navy of its own, Ukraine is estimated to have eliminated about a third of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, forcing the country to curtail its activities in the Black Sea and move ships away from occupied Crimea to a port in Novorossiysk.
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