Updated: Today 10:57 Published: Today 10:57
This weekend, Ukraine’s military said it had sunk a Russian attack submarine, the B-237 Rostov-na-Donu, off the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula.
Now sources confirm to the independent Astra news channel, which is run by Russian journalists in exile, that the submarine was hit by two US ATACMS robots.
The attack must have taken place on the night between August 1 and 2 when the submarine was in port in Sevastopol. The Ukrainian military’s general staff said the submarine sank immediately, but Astra’s sources within the blue-light authorities in annexed Crimea have not confirmed whether this is true.
The sources state that a total of eight ATACMS robots should have been fired at the area around Sevastopol, but that most were shot down by Russian air defenses. Russia’s Ministry of Defense has not commented on the data.