Wed 31 May 2023:
The Russian forces have destroyed the last Ukrainian warship in the port of Odesa, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
“On May 29, as a result of a strike by a high-precision weapon of the Russian aerospace forces at .. the port of Odessa, the last warship of the Ukrainian naval forces, Yuri Olefirenko, was destroyed,” the ministry said in a statement.
It was not immediately possible to verify Moscow’s assertion and Kyiv has not yet commented on the claim.
A spokesperson for the Ukrainian Naval Forces declined to comment to the AFP news agency.
The Yuri Olefirenko is a medium-sized landing ship for troops and vehicles.
First named Kirovohrad, the ship was renamed in 2016 in honor of a Ukrainian marine killed near the southeastern port of Mariupol in 2015.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky decorated its crew in June 2022.
Ukraine’s military said Monday that heavy air strikes had ignited a fire and damaged infrastructure at the port of Odesa, which is a key grain export hub in addition to its naval base.
The Ukrainian military’s southern command said it was determining the extent of the damage at the time.
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