Efe kyiv
Kyiv
Updated Wednesday, February 14, 2024-09:09
Direct Follow all the information about the war in Ukraine
The
Ukrainian
Armed Forces announced this Wednesday the destruction in the
Black Sea
of a Russian Army amphibious assault ship that was sailing near the coast of the
Crimean
peninsula , occupied by
Russia
since 2014.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with military intelligence units (GUR), have destroyed the large amphibious assault ship of the occupiers '
Caesar Kunikov
'," reads the note published by the Ukrainian General Staff on its networks. social.
According to the brief statement, the Russian warship was destroyed in territorial waters that legally belong to Ukraine near
Alupka
, in the south of the occupied Crimean peninsula.
Ukrainian military intelligence has also confirmed the sinking operation of the 'Caesar Kunikov', which the GUR claims has been destroyed by a
Ukrainian Magura naval drone
.
"A Magura has destroyed the Caesar; intelligence agents have sunk a large amphibious assault ship of the
Russian Black Sea Fleet
," the GUR message reads.
According to data from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia has lost a third of its Black Sea fleet since the start of the war in Ukrainian attacks with drones or missiles.