Ukraine claimed this Wednesday to have achieved a small victory against Russia by destroying an enemy ship in the Black Sea, when it was sailing near the coast of the annexed Crimean peninsula.
According to the General Staff of its Armed Forces, it would be a ship called Caesar Kunikov, which “at the time of the attack was in territorial waters” that legally belong to Ukraine, near the city of Alupka, in southern Crimea.
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with military intelligence units (GUR), have destroyed the large amphibious assault ship Caesar Kunikov of the Russian occupiers,” reads the note published by the Ukrainian General Staff on its social networks. .
The operation against the Russian ship was carried out using maritime drones, the GUR said in another statement that also announced the destruction of the ship. A Ukrainian naval drone “Magura has destroyed the Caesar; intelligence agents have sunk a large amphibious assault ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet,” his message says.
The Crimean Wind Telegram channel collected testimonies from local residents who claimed that in the early hours of February 13 to 14, sounds of explosions could be heard from Yalta, Mishkor, Alupka and Simeiza, towns on that Black Sea peninsula.
