This Monday, Ukraine carried out an attack operation during which its underwater drones successfully destroy a Russian submarine stationed in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, as reported by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in a statement.
In the note published by kyiv, it is stated that the offensive was carried out with drones “Baby submarine“, of Ukrainian manufacture, with which it was possible to cause an explosion with which the Russian submarine, valued at 340 million euros and capable of launching cruise missiles Kalibr“sustained serious damage and was taken out of service,” according to the statement.
The SBU memo explains that the submarine, equipped with missile launchers, formed part of the fleet that Russia withdrew to the eastern part of the Black Sea Due, according to kyiv, to repeated attacks on Russian ships in the waters of the Crimean peninsula by Ukrainian drones.
The Russian city of Novorossiysk is located on the Russian coast, a few kilometers from the city of Krasnodar and close to the spa town of Gelendzhik, where there is a luxurious palace complex repeatedly attributed to the Russian President himself, Vladimir Putin (a circumstance officially denied by the Kremlin).
Concretely, the Russian submarine attacked is a 636.3 Varshavyanka, cataloged in the “Kilo class” by NATO. Its Kalibr missiles were used repeatedly in long range attacks against civilian infrastructure and electrical installations within the Ukrainian terror. kyiv assures that the international sanctions weighing on Russia make the production of these modern submarines particularly costly for Moscow, with a price of more than 400 million euros.
Ukraine assures that the operation in Novorossiysk marks an important milestone, since it is the first time that Ukraine has successfully launched an attack against a submarine of this class. In the video released by Ukrainian forces, we can see the cloud of smoke and water caused by a large underwater explosion, very close to other ships of the Russian flag.
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