He ukrainian army claimed on Tuesday the destruction of a Russian war patrol boat near the annexed Crimean peninsula, in a new setback for Moscow in this strategic area of the Black Sea.
The Ukrainian Navy assured that a “special unit” had “destroyed the most modern of the Russian patrol boatsthe Sergei Kotov” that had been hit “by Magura V5 maritime drones.”
The attack of the Ukrainian army on Russia in the Black Sea
The attack occurred “in Ukrainian territorial waters, near the Kerch Strait”, added the naval force. According to this source, the Russian patrol boat had already been “severely damaged” in September in another Ukrainian attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky He welcomed the attack, which, according to him, is proof “of what Ukraine is capable of.”
“There is no safe haven for Russian terrorists in the Black Sea and there never will be. And there will be no safe space for them in the sky either,” he added.
Ukraine’s military intelligence service
He attack was the work of the Ukrainian military intelligence service GUR, which published a black and white video on Tuesday that allegedly shows the moment of the nighttime attack. The images show a naval drone approaching the Sergei Kotov, 94 meters long, and then an explosion that causes a large flare and sends debris flying into the air.
He Russian Defense Ministry made no official comment on the attackbut military bloggers from countries close to the armed forces confirmed the attack.
The war between Ukraine and Russia
In two years of war, kyiv forces managed to push back the powerful Russian fleet in the Black Sea with missiles and naval drones and reopen a maritime corridor to export its extensive grain reserves. According to the Ukrainian military, around a third of Russian military vessels in the area were “disabled” in February.
“The Russian Black Sea Fleet is a symbol of occupation. “It cannot be found in Ukrainian Crimea,” Presidential Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak said on Tuesday.
What is Crimea
Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, It is a regular target of attacks from kyiv due to its logistical importance in Russian operations. He military intelligence service also carried out a drone attack on Tuesday against an oil depot in the Gubkin district of the Belgorod border region, a Ukrainian military source said.
In recent weeks there have been repeated attacks of this style against oil infrastructure in Russian territory.
In Kursk, neighboring Belgorod region and also on the border with Ukrainethe local governor reported that a Ukrainian attack had hit the Glushkovo train station.
He attack “caused no injuries,” said Roman Starovoit, but it caused a fire and damaged high-voltage lines that left the station itself and the nearby town of Kulbaki without electricity.
On your part, The Ukrainian air force said Tuesday that it had intercepted 18 of 22 drones launched by Russia. against the Odessa region in the south, where a similar attack on Saturday left 12 dead.
Russia-Ukraine War: On the Battle Front
On the front, Ukrainian troops continue to suffer from the lack of weapons and ammunition to repel the Russian offensive, especially west of the eastern town of Avdiivka, taken in February by Moscow after four months of violent battle.
He French President Emmanuel Macron is in Prague to support an initiative Czech purchase of non-European ammunition for kyiv. The French president He urged Ukraine’s allies “not to be cowards” in the face of a Russia that “has become unstoppable”, and claimed to have called for a “strategic shakeup” by raising the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine. However, he assured that does not want an “escalation” with Russia.
The defense of the European Commission
The European Commission proposed financing part of the arms purchases decided jointly by the 27 countries of the bloc, in order to strengthen defense capabilities of the continent against the Russian threat and reduce dependence on the United States.
The International Criminal Court (CPI) announced that it issued arrest warrants against a lieutenant general of the Russian armed forces and an admiral of the Russian navy for alleged war crimes committed in Ukraine.
“Any Russian commander who orders attacks against Ukrainian civilians and crucial infrastructure must know that justice will be served”Zelensky reacted on the social network X.
Source: Ambito
