

The strike at Novorossiysk was the latest demonstration of Kyiv’s ambitious push to develop long-range unmanned attack vehicles at sea and in the air. It was built in 2014 and has 5,000-ton capacity.

SIG is one of the biggest Russian oil tankers. The source said the SIG had been “transporting fuel for the Russian military.”ĬNN has not been able to independently verify the claims. However, Russia’s Federal Agency for Marine and River Transport said in a statement on Telegram that there were no casualties among the 11 crew.Ī Ukraine Security Service source told CNN the hit on the Russian oil tanker, the SIG, was carried out in a joint operation with the Navy and that it involved a sea drone with 450kg of TNT. The drones damaged a civilian Russian tanker, injuring some crew members, according to Vladimir Rogov, an official with the Zaporizhzhia military-civilian administration. The Ukrainian source said the operation was carried out jointly by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Navy.Ī Russian-appointed official said later on Friday that three Ukrainian sea drones had also been destroyed near the Kerch Strait and the area leading to the Crimean bridge. The video ends just as the drone reaches its target. The 36-second video, shot from the sea drone, shows it approaching a ship at night. “As the result of the attack, the Russian ship has received serious damage and is not able to fulfill its duties.”ĬNN was provided with footage showing an unmanned sea drone approaching a ship that appears to match the identity of the one later seen listing in the port of Novorossiysk. “A big navy ship, Olenogorsky Gornyak, was hit,” the source told CNN. The incident comes against the backdrop of rising tensions in the Black Sea and stepped up Ukrainian strikes against targets across Russia after President Volodymr Zelensky pledged to “return” the war to Russian territory.Ī Ukrainian source told CNN that a sea drone carrying nearly 1,000 pounds of TNT had hit the ship, and claimed there were about 100 Russian servicemen aboard. For more information or to subscribe, please enter your details in the form below.Ukrainian sea drones attacked a major naval base in Russia on Friday, leaving a damaged Russian warship listing in the Black Sea in a brazen strike carried out hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-held territory.ĭramatic social media videos showed the vessel, an amphibious Russian landing ship, tilting badly and sitting very low in the water as it was being towed near the base at Novorossiysk, Russia’s largest port.
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