Ukraine has released a video of the maritime drone it used in the attacks on the Kerch Strait bridge and Russian warships.
On Wednesday, the Security Service of Ukraine released a video of the Sea Baby drone traveling along the surface of the sea. Ukraine has not revealed where and when the video was filmed.
Head of the SBU, the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maljuk tells though for CNN, that the drone of that model was used in the July 17 attack that damaged the Kerch Strait bridge between Crimea and Russia. Ukraine has rarely directly admitted whether it is behind the attacks against Russia.
– Later we also used them in the attacks on the Russian Olengorskiy Gornyak landing craft and the SIG tanker in the Black Sea, he admits.
CNN has today published footage from the July bridge attack in the Kerch Strait, provided by the Ukrainian security service SBU. The video shows how two drones hit the bridge, one on the road section of the bridge and the other on the railway section.
Ukraine has recently increased the number of drone strikes it has carried out in Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine and on Russia’s own soil. With the help of new technology, strikes by unmanned ships are no longer limited to strikes by air.
On August 4, a Russian warship was seriously damaged in a sea drone strike by Ukraine. It was the first time that the Ukrainian navy managed to strike an enemy target so far from its own coastal area, as the Russian ship was anchored in the port of Novorossiysk at the time of the strike.
According to Maljuk, the development of maritime drones started right after Russia started the war of aggression in Ukraine. No other parties participated in the development work that lasted several months.
– Drones that travel on the surface of the sea are the Ukrainian Security Service’s own and unique invention, he says.