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Ukraine says a missile barrage against Russia's Black Sea Fleet was even more successful than it thought
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-revealed-black-sea-strikes-hit-2-more-russia-ships-2024-3
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ukraine said that its weekend strikes on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet were more successful than it previously revealed, with damage to two additional vessels.
Ukraine’s navy said on Sunday that it struck two of Russia’s large landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov, in occupied Crimea, in an attack on Saturday.
The ship was seized from Ukraine in 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula, as Business Insider’s Jake Epstein previously reported.
The UK’s defense minister said on Sunday, after Ukraine’s first updates about the attack, that the Black Sea Fleet was “functionally inactive.”
“Putin’s continued illegal occupation of Ukraine is exacting a massive cost on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet which is now functionally inactive,” Grant Shapps wrote, adding: "Russia has sailed the Black Sea since 1783 but is now forced to constrain it’s fleet to port.
Ukraine has used missiles, drones, and commando raids to harass ships at Sevastopol, Russia’s major Black Sea port in Crimea.
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