Posted on 06/06/2024 4:32:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian intelligence published a video on Thursday that purportedly shows the moment Kyiv's forces destroyed a Russian tugboat near annexed Crimea using naval kamikaze drones.
"Maritime strike. All hits on target. Minus one more enemy ship," Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) spokesperson Andriy Yusov said during a national broadcast.
The HUR said one of its units successfully attacked and destroyed a Russian "Saturn" tugboat.
Kyiv has targeted Russia's Black Sea Fleet throughout President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of the country, which began in February 2022. Ukraine has vowed to reverse the Russian leader's 2014 annexation of Crimea, which now serves as Moscow's central logistics hub for its forces in southern Ukraine.
"On June 6, a special unit of the 9th Department of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine off the coast of the temporarily occupied Crimea successfully struck a Russian raid tugboat of the Project 498 Saturn or Protey," the HUR statement said.
"Another ship belonging to the Russian invaders was destroyed," it added. "The destructive fire damage was inflicted after a successful breakthrough of the Russian line of defensive barriers in the Black Sea."
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I am full of sandwiches, and I am coming for YOU.
Ritter’s infatuation with underage children is natural?
Sidestepping the topic of your own, damn thread, I see. Spineless.
O noes! The Scott Ritter Defense Brigade has been activated!
Pro tip #75: Actually get to know the players in a forum that you are posting propaganda on.
Clearing out the Russian navy from the Black Sea for less than 5% of our defense budget is the bargain of a lifetime. President Reagan is smiling in Heaven.
Both sides are constantly engaged in information warfare, so it is good to have posts from both sides.
Perhaps someone with a knowledge of the Russian navy will be able to give more specific information of the tug which was sunk.
Russia was supposed to take Kyiv in 3 days and it flopped. Be mad at Putin, not me.
You sure don’t hold back and let it all hang out, for LGBSFU+ month!!! 🏳️🌈
In spite of the loss of a critical tugboat the Russians on the front keep moving west...
Hopium oughta be criminalized.
Yeah, right. Ukraine is fighting for its life and has held off the second largest army in world for over two years, yet you think that that most of the money was siphoned off. (Btw, almost all of the aid is in terms of materiel, not cash.) So how has Ukraine been able to hold off the Russians?
If this keeps up, they may run out of submarine parking spaces. Then what?
Those are all images the Russian troll crowd will use for pinups on their locker doors or on the ceiling above their beds.
It’s getting crowded at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Putin’s remaining Black Sea Fleet ships have just fled the port of Novorossiysk. What are they afraid of?
Meanwhile, on the actual battlefield, Russia continues to advance:
Novomykhailivka Front Completely Collapsed l Lightning Fast Russian Advance
I will ask, Marcus, how many young boys you’ve molested.
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