In its defensive battle against the Russian Navy, Ukraine claims to have achieved another success in the Black Sea. On Thursday evening, the rocket ship Ivanovets was sunk by several naval drones, Ukrainian military intelligence said on Thursday. The attack took place on the west coast of the Crimean Peninsula, which has been annexed by Russia since 2014. There has been no confirmation of this incident from the Russian side so far.
As evidence, Kiev showed a video showing several explosive-laden naval drones approaching the Russian warship in succession and exploding. The ship listed and eventually sank.
Since the Russian invasion nearly two years ago, the Ukrainian military has repeatedly sunk and damaged Russian warships with missiles and naval drones. The Russian Black Sea Fleet was largely driven from the western part of the Black Sea.
Rocket hits Ukrainian hospital
According to information from Kiev, a Russian missile has hit a hospital in the Kharkiv region in the northeast of the country. Four people were slightly injured and 38 were evacuated, the region’s governor, Oleh Synehubow, said on Telegram. The facade, windows and roof of the hospital were damaged.
Russia, in turn, reported nearly a dozen Ukrainian drone strikes in the border area. Eight drones were shot down by Russian air defenses over the Belgorod region, two in Voronezh and one in Kursk, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said. Nothing is yet known about possible casualties or damage.
It cannot be independently verified whether all projectiles can actually be repelled on approach. In the case of Ukrainian drone attacks, Russia often only reports alleged successes of its own air defense.
Belbek Air Force Base was hit this weekend
Only on Wednesday did the Ukrainian army fire rockets en masse into the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which had been annexed by Russia in violation of international law. Ukrainian air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk then published a video allegedly showing a hit on the Russian air base Belbek, not far from the city of Sevastopol. On Thursday morning, Russian social networks, citing anonymous sources, also suspected that a Ukrainian missile had hit Belbek. This has not yet been independently confirmed.
Source: Krone
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