The ship is the same type as the one seen under attack in a video captured by a naval drone. The visuals verified by The Times show the vessel, a Ropucha-class landing ship, seemingly listing, with damage in the middle of its port side, while tugboats try to bring it into the port. While the extent of the damage was not fully clear, it appeared to be one of the most prominent Russian naval vessels hit since Ukrainian forces sunk the Moskva, the flagship of Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet, in the early months of the war. The New York Times verified multiple videos and photographs showing a damaged Russian warship in the port of Novorossiysk. It came hours after a separate attack by aerial drones on a Russian port in occupied Crimea. The strike on the Russian ship in the port of Novorossiysk, a key naval and shipping hub hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory, demonstrated the expanding ability of Ukraine’s fleet of air and sea drones to pierce even well defended Russian targets. yigal_levin, via TelegramĪ Ukrainian maritime drone slammed into a naval ship at a major Russian port on the Black Sea on Friday, an audacious early morning attack that damaged the vessel and dealt another blow to the Kremlin’s military and economic infrastructure far from the front lines of the war. Video released by the Ukrainian military shows a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian naval ship in the port of Novorossiysk.
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