{"id":41454,"date":"2024-02-02T04:59:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41454"},"modified":"2024-02-02T04:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:59:39","slug":"ukraine-thought-to-have-sunk-russian-warship-near-occupied-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/02\/02\/ukraine-thought-to-have-sunk-russian-warship-near-occupied-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine thought to have sunk Russian warship near occupied Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukrainian forces are believed to have sunk the Russian Ivanovets warship near occupied Crimea in a sophisticated overnight attack by multiple sea drones, demonstrating Kyiv\u2019s expanding power in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence published a grainy video showing several sea drones attacking the Russian corvette, ending with three dramatic images showing it listing, exploding and sinking into the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine said the boat had been sunk, as did leading Russian military bloggers. Hours later, western officials said they believed the warship had been destroyed in an attack that used long range uncrewed drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ukrainian defence ministry said in a statement: \u201cAs a result of a number of direct hits to the hull, the corvette was damaged, rolled to the stern, and sank. The value of the ship is approximately $60m-$70m [\u00a347m-\u00a355m].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ivanovets is a small missile warship that usually holds a crew of about 40 people. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties, although it is highly likely given the speed and intensity of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russia did not immediately comment on the incident, but a number pro-Kremlin military bloggers close to Moscow confirmed that the Ivanovets warship was hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring the night, the enemy sank the Ivanovets, a large missile boat,\u201d wrote influential Russian military blogger Anastasia Kashevarova on her telegram channel. A second blogger said it had been hit three times, and the crew \u201cfought to the last\u201d to keep the ship afloat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Ukraine began the war with no navy, scuttling its only\u00a0from its main base in Crimea to Novorossiysk on the Russian mainland \u2013 while Ukraine has been able to restart grain exports from Odesa and other nearby ports, bringing them back to prewar levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by the Ukrainians, the sea drones, based on modified jetskis, cost in the tens of thousands of dollars, operate in swarms and can be controlled remotely. The video released by the defence ministry is based on a selection of live video feeds from the drones, right up to the moment of impact in some cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyiv has carried out a number of attacks with sea drones, targeting military ships,\u00a0the base in Sevastopol\u00a0and Novorossiysk harbour. It has also sunk Russian warships using conventional means, most notably the flagship Moskva, hit with two Neptune cruise missiles in April 2022, forcing its crew of 500 to abandon ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s SBU intelligence service also said it used remotely controlled sea drones during an attack last year on the Russian-built Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea to the mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two \u201cSea Baby\u201d drones packed with 850kg of explosives each damaged the road bridge, forcing it to be temporarily closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant Shapps, the UK defence secretary, said last year that Russia had lost up to 20% of its Black Sea fleet during the last four months of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s successes in the Black Sea offer a rare bright spot for the country, whose forces have moved on to the defensive across several fronts after a failed summer counteroffensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine\u2019s chief military commander, highlighted the country\u2019s success in drone development in his first public comments since it emerged this week that the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, had asked him to resign amid a series of political disagreements between the two. Zaluzhnyi declined to go, prompting speculation he would be sacked instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an article for CNN, Zaluzhnyi said that while Moscow enjoyed a \u201csignificant advantage\u201d over Kyiv because it had more soldiers and artillery, Ukraine had rapidly developed \u201cnew capabilities\u201d, especially in the field of \u201cunmanned weapons systems\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are proliferating at a breathtaking pace and the scope of their applications grows ever wider,\u201d Zaluzhnyi wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrucially, it is these unmanned systems \u2013 such as drones \u2013 along with other types of advanced weapons, that provide the best way for Ukraine to avoid being drawn into a positional war, where we do not possess the advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The army chief argued that remote technology reduced the level of human losses and made Ukraine\u2019s military less reliant on conventional armoured vehicles or \u201cheavy materiel\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: \u201cIt opens up the possibility of inflicting sudden massive strikes against critical infrastructure facilities and communications hubs without deploying expensive missiles or manned aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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