Ukraine takes out a $169,000,000 warship stolen by Putin

Ukraine takes out a $169,000,000 warship stolen by Putin

 

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is suffering one blow after another as it loses yet another warship to Ukrainian missiles. Ukraine got revenge a decade after Putin’s forces stole the Konstantin Olshansky, along with most of the Ukrainian navy, when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. The extent of the damage is yet to be determined (Picture: east2west)

 

The 369ft landing ship had been renovated for use against its original owner, so Ukraine decided to strike with a Ukrainian-made Neptune anti-ship missile. Declaring the hit on Tuesday morning, Ukraine’s navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said: ‘This ship was supposed to be used by Ukraine. ‘Therefore, a decision was made to defeat this unit with our Neptune.’ It was part of the one of the largest bombardments of Russian-occupied Sevastopol, home of the Black Sea Fleet, since all-out war began in February 2022 (Picture: Social media/east2west)

 

As part of its intensification of attacks on naval targets in occupied Crime, Ukraine also took out the £80 million ($101 million) spy ship, Ivan Khurs, in a massive missile strike with two hits over the weekend. This was in addition to inflicting ‘critical’ damage on Yamal and Azov, two large landing ships worth £170 million ($215 million) each. It is believed the ships were hit by an Anglo-French Storm Shadow and SCALP bombardment. Although the condition of the Ivan Khurs and its crew of up to 131 is unclear, Ukraine believes none of the latest four targets are able for use in Russia’s war (Picture: Getty Images)

 

‘The occupiers are continuously pumping water from the damaged ship, which took part in the annexation of Crimea and was under repair from 2017 to 2023’, Ukrainian military intelligence GUR said on Telegram. Putin had just sacked the navy’s commander-in-chief, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, days earlier due to the humiliation of having its sea superiority whittled down by a country with no large warships of its own. Ukraine had disabled a third of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet warships by early February,the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed. That figure is now a quarter after the weekend strikes (Picture: Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/ Kremlin Pool/EPA)

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Russia has lost eight vessels since December alone. This is thanks to Ukraine’s campaign of kamikaze sea drone and missile strikes, aided by a burgeoning domestic drone industry. Russia is yet to comment on the strike on the Konstantin Olshansky. Putin replaced Yevmenov with Admiral Alexander Moiseev, 61 (Picture: Oleksandr Gusev/Global Images Ukraine via Getty)

 

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Elsewhere, Ukrainians woke to further destruction amid Russian drone and missile attacks against cities on Monday. In Kyiv, residents heard at least four loud explosions just seconds after air raid sirens, leaving them no time to reach shelter. Debris from an intercepted missile damaged a non-residential building when it fell in the city’s Pechersk district, the city’s City Military Administration said on Telegram. Two people were injured. In Odesa, four people were injured and two buildings were destroyed in a ballistic missile attack

 

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This comes after more than 1,600 planes have been hit by GPS interference in less than two days, in what is thought to be an effort by Russia to create an ‘atmosphere of threat’. Many of the aircraft affected by the mysterious jamming of navigational equipment over eastern Europe were carrying civilians. Such interference poses serious issues for pilots, as it can force them to contend with fake signals that give false information about the plane’s position in the sky. A map posted on X by an open-source intelligence account that tracks interference shows incidents widely spread across Poland and southern Sweden (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

 

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The rise in interference over recent months has been blamed on jammers in Russia’s Kaliningrad region. The oblast, which sits separate from the rest of the country between Nato members Poland and Lithuania, is a base for one of Russia’s naval fleets. A Lithuanian defence official told Newsweek: ‘Russian armed forces have a wide spectrum of military equipment dedicated for GNSS interference, including jamming and spoofing, at varying distances, duration and intensity.’ Read the full story here (Picture: Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

 

 

 

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Russia jams the GPS of more than 1,600 planes above Europe

Lucia BotfieldPublished Mar 26, 2024, 10:57am|Updated Mar 26, 2024, 4:08pm