The military of Ukraine has claimed it sank a Russian submarine in a port in Crimea, which could be another major setback for Moscow in the occupied peninsula. On Friday the submarine Rostov-on-Don was hit in the port of Sevastopol, said the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a statement.
‘The boat sank on the spot’, the General Staff said, without providing further evidence. If confirmed, the sinking would be Ukraine’s latest blow to Russia’s navy, which Kyiv claims has already lost a third of its Black Sea Fleet.
The General Staff said, ‘The alleged loss of the Rostov-on-Don proves once again that there is no safe place for the Russian fleet in Ukrainian territorial waters of the Black Sea’.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry stopped the attack, saying in a post on social media that ‘a Russian submarine went to the bottom of the Black Sea’ after it was attacked in Sevastopol’s port.
As a result of the attack, the submarine sank. Great work, warriors. Russia has occupied Crimea since its forces annexed the peninsula in 2014. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine more than two years ago, it has come under sporadic attack from Kyiv’s forces.
The Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said submarine defense exercises were taking place on Saturday, and everything is calm in the city. Russian military blogger Boris Rozhin said the ship repair plant in Sevastopol, where the submarine was docked, appears to have been hit.
Notably, it was commissioned in 2014, the Rostov-on-Don is a 73.8-meter (242-foot) Kilo II-class submarine and carries a crew of 52. With a submerged displacement of 3,100 tons, the diesel-electric-powered vessel can carry Kalibr cruise missiles.
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