Ukraine claims to have hit two additional Russian ships in Crimea on Sunday. kyiv had already announced on Sunday that it had hit the Yamal and Azov ships, as well as a communications center and other infrastructure of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

In early March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated himself after a successful attack on a Russian vessel, saying that "there is no refuge for Russian terrorists in the Black Sea and there never will be" Russia claimed on Saturday to have repelled a “massive” Ukrainian missile attack targeting Sevastopol, and specified it had shot down “more than ten missiles”