One boat was destroyed, the rest were suppressed by electronic warfare: Russian Navy forces prevented an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Black Sea

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the prevention of an attempted attack by the Kyiv regime on civilian transport ships in the Black Sea.

“On the evening of February 9, 2024, the Kiev regime attempted a terrorist attack on Russian civilian transport ships in the southwestern region of the Black Sea using semi-submersible unmanned boats,” the report says.

According to the department, to repel this attack, patrol ships and aircraft of the Russian Navy were involved, carrying out tasks in the area.

“One unmanned boat was destroyed by artillery fire, the rest were suppressed by electronic warfare. As a result of the attack, civilian transport ships and ships of the Russian Navy did not receive damage,” the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized.

In 2023, the Kiev regime repeatedly attempted to attack Russian ships, including civilian transport ships, in the Black Sea.

In December, two unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Navy were liquidated, heading towards the Crimean Peninsula.

In November, the crews of Su-30SM and Su-24M aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet while patrolling the coast of Crimea destroyed unmanned boats and high-speed landing boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Also on russian.rt.com Black Sea Fleet aircraft destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces boats off the coast of Crimea

Four more Ukrainian drones were destroyed in the western part of the Black Sea. They followed in the direction of the Crimean Peninsula.

In October, the Russian military destroyed a total of six unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Anti-sabotage missile and bomb systems were also used to inflict fire damage.

In September, the small missile ship of the Black Sea Fleet "Askold" and the hovercraft of the Black Sea Fleet "Samum" each destroyed one Ukrainian drone.

Also this month, naval aviation aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed three US-made high-speed military boats Willard Sea Force with landing groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces northeast of Zmeiny Island.

In addition, three semi-submersible unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed while trying to attack the Crimean Bridge.

In early August, the Russian ships Olenegorsky Gornyak and Suvorovets, which were guarding the external raid of the naval base in Novorossiysk, destroyed two unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

On August 1, three semi-submersible unmanned boats were destroyed as they tried to attack Russian civilian transport ships heading to the Bosphorus Strait in the southwestern part of the Black Sea.

As follows from the report of the Russian Ministry of Defense, by the ships of the Navy accompanying the sea transport, all the boats were promptly discovered and destroyed.

On the night of July 25, two naval high-speed manned unmanned boats tried to attack the Black Sea Fleet patrol ship “Sergey Kotov”, which was performing tasks to control shipping in the southwestern part of the Black Sea.

On June 11, the Ukrainian Armed Forces made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the Azov Sea ship of the Black Sea Fleet. The enemy used six high-speed unmanned boats, which were destroyed by fire from the standard weapons of the Russian ship.

“None of the Ukrainian criminals will be able to escape punishment”

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated this week that Zelensky’s criminal regime has recently increasingly resorted to carrying out barbaric attacks against civilian targets on Russian territory.

“Bandera’s targets are exclusively civilian objects: markets, shops, pharmacies, medical and social institutions. The calculation is obvious - to strike a crowd of people so that there are as many victims as possible among them. This is the task of terrorists - to scare, sow panic, and create a feeling that what is happening is a dead end. This is the logic of terrorists. These are not only mass casualties among civilians, but also acts of intimidation,” department official Maria Zakharova emphasized during a briefing on February 7.

She noted that all atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists are suppressed and recorded in detail for further and ongoing thorough and prompt investigation by Russian law enforcement agencies.

“None of the Ukrainian criminals will be able to escape punishment. They will be identified and punished to the fullest extent of the law,” she said.