Kyiv’s military stated on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces damaged the Russian Navy’s Tsezar Kunikov huge landing ship off the occupied Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea.
On Telegram, the military wrote, “The Ukrainian Armed Forces, together with the Defence Ministry’s intelligence unit, destroyed the Tsezar Kunikov large landing ship. It was in Ukrainian territorial waters near Alupka at the time of the hit”.
Russia, which had previously stated it had destroyed six drones in the Black Sea, had no immediate reaction.
The Ukrainian military intelligence service reported that the Russian cruiser had been attacked with naval drones.
Ukraine has attacked Russian warships with unmanned navy drones loaded with explosives in an attempt to push them out of the western Black Sea, allowing the opening of a maritime channel along a historically important export route.
In December, Ukrainian cruise missiles targeted another huge Russian landing warship in Crimea.
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