After the defeat of several dozen Russian ships by the Ukrainian Defenсe Forces, the Russian Federation began to involve submarines in patrolling the Black Sea.
Points of attention
- The Ukrainian Defenсe Forces hit dozens of Russian ships, which forced the Russian Federation to recruit submarines to patrol the Black Sea.
- The Russian Federation's submarines in the Black Sea perform tasks and replace each other, and some of them carry cruise missiles.
- The Russians have begun organising a training process for their ships in the Sea of Azov, where large and small missile ships also patrol.
- To protect against Ukrainian drones, the Russians are building structures such as barges and background barriers for their ships in the Sea of Azov.
- The Russian fleet lost 56 warships during the invasion of Ukraine, including such ships as "Moskva", "Minsk", and "Yamal". The events in the Sea of Azov on June 9 indicate a possible attack by one of the Russian ships.
Russia patrols the Black Sea with submarines
This happened due to the active attacks of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia.
The head of the Strategic Communications Center (SCC) of the Southern Defence Forces, Dmytro Pletenchuk, announced the Russian Navy's change in tactics on the national newscast.
In the Black Sea, they now carry out tasks with submarines. They have already formed a practice when these submarines replace each other in the morning. In the Azov-Black Sea region, they have four submarines, three of which are carriers of cruise missiles. Two submarines periodically go out to sea.
Dmytro Pletenchuk
Chief of the SCC of the Southern Defence Forces
At the same time, according to Pletenchuk, the Russians have decided that it is safer in the Sea of Azov and are now trying to organize a training process for their ships there.
In particular, three large landing ships of the Russian Federation and three more small missile ships of the Buyan-M project are currently in the Sea of Azov.
These ships made the transition from the base point to Novorossiysk.
To protect their ships in the Sea of Azov from Ukrainian drones, the Russians are building structures in the form of barges and background barriers, Pletenchuk said.
It will be recalled that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian fleet has lost 56 warships, including large amphibious ships "Moskva", "Minsk", "Yamal" and others.
What is known about the attack on the Russian ship in the Sea of Azov
One of the Russian ships was probably attacked in the Sea of Azov on June 9.
According to Crimean Wind, on June 8, around 16:00, several vessels of a "non-civilian type" were spotted on a raid from the shore between Berdyansk and Primorsk (the first point on the map, ed.).
At night, around midnight, a Ukrainian marine drone attacked a Russian ship near the port of Yeisk (the second point on the map, — ed.) and the ship previously went to escort the cruiser "Moskva" (it was sunk by AFU strike with two Neptune missiles on April 13, 2022, — Ed.), — says the message.
