A Ukrainian attack on the Crimean port of Feodosia damaged a large Russian landing ship and killed one person, Moscow said yesterday after Kyiv said it had destroyed an important Russian warship.
The Russian Ministry of Defense was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying that Ukraine had used air-launched missiles to attack Feodosia and that the large landing ship Novocherkassk had been damaged in the raid.
The Novocherkassk, which entered service in the late 1980s, is designed for amphibious landings and can carry several types of armored vehicles, including tanks.
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Footage posted by Russian news outlets on the Telegram messaging app, purportedly from the port, showed powerful explosions detonating and fires burning.
One person was killed, two were injured and six evacuated from their homes, Crimea Governor Sergei Aksyonov wrote on Telegram.
Although a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made little in the way of battlefield gains and the Russian military has regained the initiative in several places, Ukraine has been able to launch a series of attacks on Crimea, the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, inflicting serious damage.
The Ukrainian Air Force said its pilots had attacked Feodosia at about 2:30am with cruise missiles, destroying the Novocherkassk.
“And the fleet in Russia is getting smaller and smaller! Thanks to the Air Force pilots and everyone involved for the filigree work!” the commander of Ukraine’s air force, Mykola Oleshchuk, wrote on Telegram.
A statement from the Russian-installed administration of Crimea said that trains were not running from Feodosia.
Separately, The Ukranian General Staff said the country’s air defense shot down 13 of 19 Shahed-type drones that were launched by Russia overnight from Crimea and its territory on the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov.
The attacks struck an infrastructure facility, causing a fire near Odesa, and damaged a storage building in the southern Mykolayiv region.
Additional reporting by Bloomberg
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