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Ukraine said Thursday it used naval drones to take out two Russian naval vessels.
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Footage shows a drone passing through heavy air fire and attacking a patrol warship.
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It is the latest Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which has been forced to disperse.
Images shared by Ukraine’s intelligence service on Thursday showed two of its naval drones attacking Russian naval vessels near Crimea.
The videoshared by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, shows a naval drone dodging Russian fire before exploding next to a Russian patrol ship.
Ukrainian intelligence service said the attack on the two ships was carried out using Magura V5 drones, and that Russia attempted to neutralize the drones with fighter aircraft, artillery and small arms.
However, they failed to stop them from completing their mission, the report said.
Business Insider could not independently verify the details of the attack.
The claimed attack is just the latest example of Ukraine’s devastating use of naval drones against Russian naval assets in the Black Sea.
In November, Ukraine said its naval drones hit and sank two landing ships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in a port on the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Ukraine increased its naval drone attacks with one strike in February take the warship Ivanovets used naval drones powered by jet skis, and another caused the explosion of the Black Sea Fleet’s Project 775 Roucha-class landing ship Caesar Kunikov, Ukrainian intelligence said at the time.
A month later the time has come said it sank the Sergei Kotov with a naval drone.
Even though you don’t have any real navy of his own country, which Ukraine has engaged in a third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, according to estimates, and forced her to do so limitation its activities in the Black Sea and to move house ships away from occupied Crimea to a port in Novorossiysk.
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