Ukrainian Navy’s reconnaissance ship Simferopol, which was reportedly the biggest ship commissioned by the nation in over a decade, has been hit and sunk in a naval drone strike, the Russian Defence Ministry introduced on Thursday.
The Laguna-class, medium-sized ship, designed for radio, digital, radar, and optical reconnaissance, was struck within the delta of the River Danube, a part of which is positioned in Ukraine’s Odessa Area, a Defence Ministry assertion stated, RT reported.
This was the primary profitable use of a sea drone to take out a Ukrainian Navy vessel, as per a TASS report citing a UAV professional, the RT added.
On Aug 28, a Russian Navy USV hit the Ukrainian reconnaissance ship Simferopol. Ukraine has confirmed the strike.
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Ukrainian authorities confirmed that the vessel has been hit.
The assault killed one crew member and injured a number of others, the Kiev Impartial wrote on Thursday, citing a Ukrainian Navy spokesperson.
“Efforts to handle the aftermath of the assault are ongoing. The vast majority of the crew are protected, and the seek for a number of lacking sailors continues,” it cited the spokesperson as saying.
The Simferopol was launched in 2019 and joined the Ukrainian Navy two years later.
In keeping with the WarGonzo Telegram channel, the vessel was the biggest ship that Kiev has managed to launch since 2014.
Russia, in latest months, has moved to speed up the manufacturing of naval drones, in addition to different unmanned techniques which have more and more dominated the Ukraine battle.
Russia additionally struck a serious drone facility in Kiev with two missile strikes in a single day, Ukrainian politician Igor Zinkevich claimed on Thursday, RT reported.
The location was getting ready to supply Turkish Bayraktar drones, he stated.