The Ukrainian army claims to have attacked a Russian landing ship with sea drones. The Black Sea Fleet ship is said to have sunk. Only at the beginning of February did Ukraine claim to have sunk a Russian ship.
The Ukrainian military says it seriously damaged and sank a ship from the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the southern coast of the annexed Crimean peninsula. The Ukrainians attacked the landing ship “Caesar Kunikov” not far from the city of Alupka with sea drones of the type “Magura V5”, said HUR military intelligence.
The agency also released a video purporting to show the moment of the attack. The extent of the damage cannot currently be independently verified. So far there has been no reaction from the Russian side.
Hatched: territories occupied by Russia
Second ship in two weeks
In the morning, the Russian Defense Ministry only reported six Ukrainian drones that were allegedly successfully shot down over the Black Sea during the night.
It was the second time in two weeks that Ukrainian forces said they had sunk a Russian ship in the Black Sea. At the beginning of February, the HUR published a video that, according to the secret service, shows sea drones attacking the Russian corvette “Ivanovets”.
The published images almost certainly indicated that the ship had sunk, the British Ministry of Defense later said in an assessment.
The Ukrainian military has already repeatedly damaged Russian warships with missiles and naval drones. According to an assessment by Kiev at the beginning of February, the Russian Black Sea Fleet lost almost a third of its combat ships and has now largely been pushed out of the western part of the Black Sea.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian parties to the conflict cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
Andrea Beer, ARD Kiev, tagesschau, February 14, 2024 2:07 p.m