Ukraine announced that it had destroyed a Russian ship on Tuesday morning.
The company Maxar Technologies, which transmits satellite images, has published a pair of images from the port of Feodosia in Crimea.
The photo taken on December 5 shows the Roputsha-class landing craft Novocherkassk attached to the dock. In the photo taken on Tuesday, December 26, the ship appears to have sunk next to the pier. Smoke rises from the ship.
Ukraine says it destroyed the ship with cruise missiles fired from aircraft on Tuesday morning. The Russian Ministry of Defense admits that the ship is damaged.
At the time, Novocherkassk was in the port of the city of Feodosia in Crimea.
– This latest destruction of Putin’s fleet proves that those who believe that the war in Ukraine is at a stalemate are wrong, wrote British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps message service in X on Tuesday.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet has suffered several losses during the war. For example, in April 2022, Ukraine sank the Russian flagship Moskva.
In September 2023, Ukraine attacked the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol. In November, Ukraine forced the Russian fleet to retreat in the Black Sea.
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