The Ukrainian navy said on Tuesday that it had hit two other Russian ships during strikes on Sunday in annexed Crimea, after which kyiv had already announced that the first two Russian ships had been hit.
“On March 24, in addition to the large amphibious ships Yamal and Azov, the Ukrainian defense forces managed to hit the reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs and the large amphibious ship Kostyantyn Olchansky
,” the Ukrainian Navy said on Facebook.
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.
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“No refuge for Russian terrorists in the Black Sea”
For its part, Russia claimed on Saturday to have repelled a
“massive”
Ukrainian missile attack targeting Sevastopol, and specified that it had shot down
“more than ten missiles”
.
In two years of Russian invasion, kyiv's forces managed to retreat the powerful Russian fleet in the Black Sea using missiles and marine drones, allowing the reopening of a maritime corridor to export Ukrainian grain ignoring threats of bombing.
The Ukrainian military claimed in early February that around a third of Russian warships had been
“put out of action”
in this area.
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
. "
If Kiev can claim success against the Russian fleet, on the other hand its army suffers on the land front where it is cruelly lacking in weapons and ammunition in the face of Russian forces who are taking advantage of this to gain ground, despite significant losses in men and women. in material.