The Ministry of Defence says the ship was struck by Ukrainian aircraft carrying guided missiles.

Russia has confirmed one of its warships has been damaged in a Ukrainian attack on a Black Sea port.

The airstrike took place at Feodosiya in Russian-occupied Crimea early on Tuesday morning.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said the large landing ship Novocherkassk was struck by Ukrainian aircraft carrying guided missiles.

The head of the Ukrainian Air Force said earlier its warplanes had destroyed the ship.

One person was killed in the attack, according to the Russian-installed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov. Several others were reportedly hurt.

Six buildings were damaged and a small number of people had to be taken to temporary accommodation centres, Mr Aksyonov added.

  • andrew_bidlawEnglish
    -5•1 year ago

    I couldn’t believe in such a big ass CGI level blast, but I’ve heard news the leaker of one of the videos was found and there were public notices of not doing just that as ‘it helps the enemy’. And also an official russian news vid from there, where a big rectangular piece of ship’s metal pierced the earth for what a host said at least a meter. I’m a cautious person when it comes to such things but it really seems a ship carrying a lot of ammunition did an oppenhaimer. Yet, I can’t confirm it was a shipment of shahed drones some people speculated about.

    What can I say? It limits how other ships would go around, many of them used to carry ammunition and perform strikes, so there would be less of them. Plus, the dock where it happened suffered, so probably minus one route water2ground.

    That attack, probably by Stormshadow, did have an impact. So the old lie new pieces won’t change anithing is, well, just a lie confirmed. If new shipments follow, it would not be the last one of confirmed kills. And having a system to reach that far can really affect the situation.