Posted on 08/22/2024 2:14:01 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian forces sank a Russian ferry carrying fuel tanks in a missile strike on a port in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on August 22, Russian officials said.
"As a result of the damage, the ferry sank in the waters of the Kavkaz port," the Krasnodar region's operational headquarters said on Telegram.
The headquarters reported earlier that "a railroad ferry with fuel tanks in the Kavkaz port was attacked" and that emergency services had been dispatched. Images circulating on social media showed a plume of dark smoke rising in the area of the ferry crossing.
The port sits in the Kerch Strait separating Russia from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.
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Fyodor Babenkov, the district head of the Russian town of Temryuk, was quoted by Reuters as saying the ferry was carrying 30 fuel tanks. The vessel sustained significant damage as a result of the attack, which caused a fire, Babenkov said.
The Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti said five people were on the vessel at the time of the attack and were unaccounted for. The Russian online news channel Baza reported that the number of people on board was 15 and all were missing.
All port employees were evacuated, TASS reported citing the Transport Ministry.
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Only half right from the reporting I have seen. No more ferries, but not all of them sunk.
I suspect one or two of them are eventually repairable
No worries the submarine became a permanent submarine in good time imagine ferries will as well
How much do you want to bet that the Russians welded plates over the holes so they could “sail” it out and say no big deal
Whoops
The isolation of Crimea continues…
Meanwhile the front in the Donbas marches ever westward...........
The Ukrainian defenses are collapsing in Donbas, the Ukrainian incursion forces failed their mission and are just trying to hang on as they run out of supplies, but someone sunk a ferry, so there’s that.
No change in the war, Ukraine is losing the last of it’s men for no reason as it loses the war, but the big news is someone sunk a ferry.
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Losing their last ferry and their shipping capacity deprives the Russians of the ability to sustain the war effort.
“...Sinks In Russian Port After Ukraine Missile Strike”
So... I think its safe to assume that it sank because of the missile strike, not after the missile strike. Let’s put this under dumb headlines from dumb editors.
The Pentagon on Thursday blasted Houthi rebels for striking an oil tanker and creating an “environmental disaster”
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