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A photo and video circulating on social media appear to show the charred remains of Russia's new Askold cruise-missile carrier, which officials say was struck during Ukrainian attack on a shipyard in annexed Crimea last week. The Pavel Derzhavin is one of the Russian navy’s newest Type corvettes, a 94-meter-long patrol ship with a deadweight of 1,500 tons and equipped with Kalibr anti-ship missiles. This incident follows a recent event where a patrol ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Pavel Derzhavin, was damaged near Sevastopol on Oct. 11. While the Ukrainian Navy confirmed the ship’s damage, they did not provide specific details about the incident. “After the initial strike, Russian minesweepers and divers were unable to detect our innovation (Sea Baby drones — ed.).
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"This strike furthers Ukraine's campaign to liberate the Luhansk region from the Russian Federation's illegal invasion and ensure that Russia is not able to advance further into Ukraine," the source said. The ‘Sea Baby’ is the latest version of a Ukrainian USV (uncrewed surface vessel) that was first used in an attack on Crimea’s Kerch Bridge on July 17. The vessel was undergoing testing in the Black Sea and was intended to officially join the fleet's operations this year, the Black Sea Fleet site said. "You can see that it's still afloat, but the upper part of the ship is significantly damaged," The Kyiv Independent quoted Ryzhenko as saying.
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“The carrier of cruise missiles Buyan could not repeat the feat of Alrosa, therefore it was struck today during the Sevastopol raid by the experimental weapons of ‘Sea Babies,’” the source said. There’s no confirmation of damage to the Buyan-M class cruise missile carrier, which was earlier reported to have been targeted as well. The Russian Navy are is subsonic 3M14 Kalibur land attack cruise missiles from ships and submarines. The Buyan cruise missile carrier was unable to repeat Alrosa's ‘heroic deed’ and was hit by experimental Sea Baby drone weapons at the Sevastopol raid today. Russia has used cruise missiles to strike both government and civilian targets in Ukraine, including the government building and a school that were destroyed in Kharkiv.
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Ukraine's Southern Command spokesperson Natalia Humeniuk said on Sunday that his country's attack in annexed eastern Crimea last week caused "significant" damage to the Russians. "I thank the pilots of the Air Forces for a successful, and most importantly, an effective strike on an enemy facility in the Luhansk region on April 13, 2024," Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk wrote. "The destruction of this headquarters will be a heavy blow to the Russian army and shows that Ukraine still retains the ability to target the Russian military anywhere it operates," the source said. The Pavel Derzhavin was built in the Kerch shipyard, a construction facility taken from Ukraine following Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014. The ship was commissioned at the end of 2020 and joined the BSF in June 2022, four months after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian language Wikipedia had, by Wednesday evening, written the ship off as a total loss and closed the page dedicated to the vessel.
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In September, during one of its largest attacks to date, a barrage of 43 cruise missiles caused blackouts across multiple Ukrainian regions. Oleshchuk added that Russia was keeping one of its most modern warships, which is capable of carrying Kalibre cruise missiles, at Zaliv. Details of the operation remain undisclosed, but sources indicate that both vessels were struck by surface drones armed with experimental weaponry known as the Sea Baby. Ukrainian intelligence asserted that a large landing ship, Minsk, and the submarine Rostov-on-Don were struck and damaged beyond repair. The Crimean Wind Telegram channel initially reported an explosion on a Russian Buyan-M missile carrier and posted a video of the ship in smoke. The ships' small size and displacement enables them to operate within inland river systems, including traversing the Moscow Canal.
"The Ukrainian pilots did an excellent job and returned to the base," he wrote, according to a report by the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. The Ukrainian operation also exposed the limitation of Russian air defences, the source said. The loss of the headquarters would impact Russia's ability to command its forces in the surrounding Luhansk region, according to the source, who shared the information on condition of anonymity.
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There are currently no reports of damage or casualties but videos posted to social media on Friday showed a Russian ship – believed to be the Buyan – billowing smoke off the coast of Sevastopol. In September, Ukraine damaged two ships at the port of Sevastopol in Crimea, in a move that analysts said prompted Russia to redistribute much of its fleet away from the key port. The naval news website Maritime Executive reported that Askold would have been brand new at the time of the strike.
A particular advantage for the Buyan-M series were the limitations imposed by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) which prohibited land-based medium-range missiles while sea-based ones were not restricted. A river-based corvette could deploy such missiles without being subject to the restrictions.[citation needed] The lead ship of this project, Grad Sviyazhsk, was laid down on 27 August 2010 and commissioned on 27 July 2014. Russia is known to have Kh-55SM cruise missiles, which can travel 3,000km at subsonic speeds and hit a target with an accuracy of 15 metres using an inertial navigation system. Dr Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow for sea power and missile defence at the Royal United Services Institute, said it is unclear how many cruise missiles Russia currently has. Andriy Ryzhenko, a captain in the Ukrainian naval reserve, told Schemes, a project by U.S.-funded Radio Liberty, that, according to his information, on November 4, "in Kerch, at the time of the explosions, there was only one ship capable of carrying Kalibr missiles, namely Askold."
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), in conjunction with the Ukrainian Navy, conducted an operation targeting the Russian Buyan-M class cruise missile carrier and a patrol ship, the Pavel Derzhavin, using experimental maritime drone weaponry, the Maritime Baby, NV sources reported on Oct. 13. Ukraine’s SBU Security Service, in conjunction with the Ukrainian Navy, conducted an operation targeting the Russian Buyan-M class cruise missile carrier and a patrol ship, the Pavel Derzhavin, using experimental maritime drone weaponry, NV sources reported on Oct. 13. All vessels since 2010 have been constructed as the improved Project subclass, incorporating greater tonnage, stealth technology and the 3S14 vertical launching system for either Kalibr or Onyx anti-ship cruise missiles, significantly enhancing combat capabilities. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian Navy attacked the Buyan cruise missile carrier and the ship Pavel Derzhavin with naval drones with experimental weapons, a source in the SBU told Interfax-Ukraine.
In a prior incident on the early morning of Sept. 14, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck and damaged two patrol ships of the aggressor country, both of the Project Vasily Bykov type, in the southwestern Black Sea. In a prior incident on Sept. 14, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck and damaged two patrol ships of the aggressor country, both of the Project Vasily Bykov type, in the southwestern Black Sea. However, at least on the first ship, the 100 mm A-190 was installed.[23] A proposed export version may carry the Italian OTO Melara 76 mm gun.[24] For anti-missile defense, the first two ships will only carry a pair of AK-630M gun-based CIWS. According to naval analysts the primary missions of the Type corvette class, pre-war are patrol of territorial waters, anti-submarine warfare and cargo ship escort. Russia's Ministry of Defense admitted damage to one of its ships on Saturday, saying Ukraine had launched a barrage of 15 cruise missiles at the shipyard, which it referred to by its alternative name of Butomy, the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Ukrainian intelligence asserted that a large landing ship, Minsk, and the submarine Rostov-on-Don were struck and considered beyond repair. The Russian navy operates 74 warships and 51 submarines, while the army has more than 13,300 tanks, almost 20,000 armoured fighting vehicles, and nearly 6,000 pieces of artillery. Military analyst Ian Matveev said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the video shows French SCALP or Storm Shadow missiles hitting a small warship at the shipbuilding plant.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to reverse Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, and attacks on the peninsula are growing in intensity. Ukraine in September launched a cruise-missile strike on the Crimean port of Sevastopol, damaging Russia's Minsk, a Ropucha-class landing ship, and the Rostov-on-Don, a Kilo-class attack submarine. The Russian Defense Ministry has already confirmed the attack by "three unmanned Ukrainian boats (maritime drones)" in occupied Crimea. Russia regularly uses its Black Sea Fleet to target Ukrainian infrastructure with cruise missiles.
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