UKRAINE CLAIMS TO HAVE HIT RUSSIAN SUBMARINE

Sat 03 August 2024:

Ukrainian forces announced on Saturday that they successfully struck and sank a Russian submarine at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on Facebook.

The statement also mentioned that Ukrainian forces targeted and successfully struck a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system on the Crimean peninsula.

According to the Ukrainian military, the submarine Rostov-on-Don, part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, sank immediately after being hit. This submarine had already sustained significant damage from a previous Ukrainian missile attack on September 13, 2023.

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“The destruction of Rostov-on-Don once again proves that there is no safe place for the Russian fleet in the Ukrainian territorial waters of the Black Sea,” the general staff in Kyiv said in a statement on Saturday.

It marks the latest attack on Russian naval forces in Sevastopol in recent months. In March alone, Ukraine said it hit two landing ships and a patrol vessel in the port city.

Since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 it has suffered several major naval setbacks. Ukraine says it has seriously damaged or sunk at least 15 warships, including the Black Sea fleet’s flagship, the Moskva.

Last week Ukraine’s military said Moscow had been forced to withdraw all of its naval assets from the Sea of Azov – a body of water connected to the Black Sea – due to repeated strikes on its vessels.

Ukraine’s allies have previously been reluctant to allow it to strike within Russia using Western weapons, though the US has recently granted Kyiv permission to attack some targets along the border.

Earlier this week Lithuania’s foreign minister said the first deliveries of F-16 fighter jets had arrived in Ukraine. Long promised by Kyiv’s Nato allies, President Zelenky views the planes as central to his country’s air defence plans.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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