In the Black Sea on February 14, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) and Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) destroyed the Russian large landing assault ship "Caesar Kunikov".
Ukraine destroyed the large Russian landing ship "Caesar Kunikov"
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with units of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, destroyed a large landing assault ship of the occupiers, "Caesar Kunikov", the message says.
It is noted that at the time of the damage, the ship was in the territorial waters of Ukraine near Alupka.
The Russian landing ship of project 775 "Caesar Kunikov" is based in Sevastopol. Before the full-scale Russian invasion, he participated in the KFOR operation in Kosovo (1999), the Russo-Georgian war (2008) and provided support to the Syrian army (2015).
On March 24, 2022, the landing ship was damaged in the port of Berdyansk. On May 14, 2023, it left the factory after being repaired and painted.
What preceded it
On February 14, explosions were heard near the coast of the temporarily occupied Crimea, and smoke was visible in the sea. Eyewitnesses reported that the cause of the explosions was a fire on one of the Russian ships.
Later, it became known that DIU drones attacked the large Russian landing assault ship "Caesar Kunikov" in the Black Sea.
In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on the night of February 14, air defence systems allegedly shot down nine drones over the territory of the Russian Federation and in the waters of the Black Sea.
In particular, it was reported that six drones were allegedly shot down over the Black Sea, two more were allegedly downed in the Belgorod region and one in the Voronezh region.
