War in Ukraine: another Russian ship burns in the Black Sea

A Russian frigate Type of Burevestnik burned Friday on Zmeiny Island, in the Black Sea, and some local Ukrainian agencies are considering the incident to the impact of a missile launched by the Ukrainian Army.

It is at least the third Russian ship attacked in the war, in addition to two boats sunk by drones a few days ago. The biggest loss is the sinking of Moscow by two Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles.

According to the Ukrainian agency Dumskaya, the Russian frigate suffered an explosion followed by fire in an incident that apparently happened this Thursday, and that was related to the impact of another Neptune missile, launched by Ukrainian military forces.

The agency noticed that Russian planes flew This area of ​​the Black Sea and rescue ships helped the burning warship from the Crimean peninsula, which has been occupied by the Russians since 2014.

Also, a Ukrainian deputy, Oleksiy Goncharenko, confirmed the incident of the frigate on his Telegram channel, where he pointed out that “Another Russian warship is enough”.

Local media also featured that the updated Ukrainian General Staff data published on Friday specifies that the Russians lost another ship.

According to sources, the damaged frigate was in service with the Russian Black Sea Fleet and It is part of the 30th Surface Ship Division.

That boat is equipped electronic war system, Calibr cruise missiles and Onyx anti-ship missiles, among other weapons.

The attacked frigate will be the ‘Admiral Makarov’, who participated in April in a bombing in the city of Odessa. An important target for Ukrainians, as it is the newest and most modern vessel of its kind

This will be the second serious defeat suffered by the Russian navy assigned to the Black Sea since Moscow ordered the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

On April 13, the Moskva cruise ship sank in the same water after an incident that the Russians blamed on an accidental accident.

The Moskva cruiser is the crown jewel of the Russian Navy. Built in 1979 at Mikolayiv shipyards (now in Ukraine) and in use since 1983, its length is 186 meters, its maximum speed 32 knots, its 12,500 tons and its 16 Vulcan anti-ship cruise missiles with range of more than 600 kilometers they made him a powerful war machine.

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On the 68th day since the war began between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported that its drones had sunk two Russian patrol boats sailing near Snake Island in the Black Sea.

They made it to the Bayraktarssome Turkish drones capable of conducting this type of operation are remotely controlled and used by the government of Volodimir Zelenski to defend his country from Russian aggression.

“Two Russian Raptor ships were destroyed this morning near Snake Island,” Ukrainian authorities said in a statement released on social media.

Agencies