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A Ukrainian navy captain claimed Russia has only one missile ship left in the Black Sea. He said that most of the Black Sea Fleet had relocated after a series of Ukrainian strikes. A senior UK Royal Navy officer said that 25% of Russia's Black Sea warships had been sunk or damaged. Pletenchuk noted that the Black Sea Fleet was once considered Russia's main force in Crimea but had almost entirely been chased away and relocated. The UK's defense minister said on March 25, after the latest Ukrainian attack, that the Black Sea Fleet was "functionally inactive."
Persons: , Dmytro Pletenchuk, Pletenchuk, Ivan Khurs, Konstantin, Russia's Adm, Viktor Sokolov, Adm, Sergei Pinchuk Organizations: Black Sea Fleet, UK Royal Navy, Service, Ukrainian, Cyclone, Gerashchenko, Black Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Crimea, Russian, Novorossiysk, Gerashchenko Ukraine, Sevastopol, Russia's, Ukraine
Ukraine revised its tally of Russian ships it said were damaged in strikes over the weekend. It said four Russian ships were hit, with earlier statements mentioning just two. Ukraine has targeted Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which the UK says is now "functionally inactive." AdvertisementUkraine said its weekend strikes on Russia's Black Sea Fleet were more successful than it previously disclosed, with damage to two additional vessels. Ukraine's navy said on Sunday that it struck two of Russia's large landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov, in occupied Crimea in an attack on Saturday.
Persons: , Ivan Khurs, Konstantin Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Ukraine, Azov, Crimea
Days later, Kyiv revealed that it struck the Konstantin Olshansky landing ship with a missile. Russian forces stole this vessel from Ukraine a decade ago during the annexation of Crimea. AdvertisementUkraine fired a missile at the warship that Russia stole from the country a decade ago, Kyiv revealed, offering new details about a large attack on Moscow's Black Sea Fleet that unfolded over the weekend. The Ukrainian defense ministry said on Tuesday that its forces used a homemade Neptune anti-ship missile to strike the Konstantin Olshansky. Russia had seized this decades-old landing ship, alongside much of Kyiv's navy, during its 2014 illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
Persons: Konstantin Olshansky, Organizations: Fleet, Russian, Service, Business Locations: Ukraine, Crimea, Russia, Ukrainian, Crimean
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