A Ukrainian strike hit two ships in dry dock at Sevastopol harbor in occupied Crimea: One Ropucha-class landing ship and One Kilo-class submarine.
A suspected overnight Ukrainian missile and drone attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol has reportedly damaged a landing ship and submarine belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in what appears to be the latest blow inflicted by Kyiv against Moscow’s navy.
The Russian state-run Tass news agency reported that the overnight attack injured 24 people in Sevastopol, with Moscow-installed city governor Mikhail Razvozhaev blaming a “missile attack.” Photos and videos of the port showed a series of explosions and fires raging around the docks. The first strikes were reported at around 3 a.m. local time. Tass reported witnesses hearing around 10 explosions.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Sevastopol was attacked by three naval drones and 10 cruise missiles. In a statement, the ministry said that all unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed, along with seven cruise missiles. The target, it added, was the S. Ordzhonikidze ship repair plant.
Razvozhaev posted a photo from the scene appearing to show the side of a Ropucha-class large landing ship that sustained damage, The New York Times reported. The Russian Baza news outlet reported that the damaged landing ship was the Minsk, and that the Kilo-class Rostov-on-Don attack submarine was also hit.
Video supposedly of the strike and aftermath (with the caveat that sometimes footage from similar strikes gets reused, and the guy’s voice at the beginning sounds strangely familiar).
Suchomimus also has a video:
As Suchomimus notes, Russia seems to be losing a naval war to a country without a navy…
Update: They’re both toast.
Tags: Black Sea, Crimea, Kalibr, Military, Minsk (ship), Novorossiysk, Rostov-on-Don (submarine), Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Sevastopol, submarine, Suchomimus, Ukraine, video
” Russia seems to be losing a naval war to a country without a navy… ”
No, Russia seems amazingly restrained in not returning the favor against America. Without US support Ukraine wouldn’t be announcing Russian bombers are departing their bases .. couldn’t target Russian ships in the Black Sea …
The Obiden regime started the war to unseat Putin. And bury the evidence of graft in DC and Keiv.
End of day Putin will outlast Biden. And Russia will own as much of Ukraine as Putin wanted.
any idea why no one has given Ukraine naval mines?
Oi.
Yet another person who thinks that the Democrat corruption was ever anything other than Russia-centric… Did the fact that Clinton ensured that the Uranium One deal went through escape you? The significance of that? The fact that the whole Burisma deal is over a company run by a Russian oligarch that was looting Ukraine?
The only weird thing in any of this is that Biden has been half-ass backing the Ukrainians in this fight. The happy way they immediately offered shelter to Zelensky when they thought he’d leave Kyiv should make that pretty damn obvious, along with the fact that Zelensky has got to have some pretty damning evidence on the Biden Krime Krewe to keep them on-side all these months.
Putin has been a cancer on Russia since the day he took office, and his utter incompetence at real governance is the death sentence for the Russian Federation. They’re not coming back from this, economically or demographically. All those little villages out in the countryside that still lack running water and indoor toilets? Those are his legacy; his victims live there, in increasing squalor that’s only going to get worse the more of their men he gets killed or maimed. The economic impacts of this stupid war are going to be felt for decades to come in Russia, and I can’t see a way out of the death-spiral he’s put them into.
He’s literally eating the seed corn. Lanchester Square collapse is coming this winter, and when that comes…? Who the hell knows. I just hope that whoever winds up in charge of the nukes isn’t a complete fool, and that the guys who were supposed to be doing the maintenance siphoned off all the funds into a yacht or two.
Putin is going to be lucky to wind up owning his own grave plot. Burial may not even be an option, once his people get done with him. Russian’s aren’t kind to failed Little Fathers… As Nicholas II and his family can attest.
I do think you’re right about the evidence of corruption, though… Just in a totally different way than you think. Obama, Clinton, and Biden were always Russian tools in the first place, and the oddity here is that they’re in opposition to Putin. Before February 24th, I’d have said the most likely outcome would have been for the Biden Krime Krewe to sanction and support the economic dismemberment of Ukraine. Whatever is making the opposite happen has to be terrifying to them…
“Russia seems amazingly restrained in not returning the favor against America.”
Was Putin restrained in his reprisals against his countrymen Prigozhin or Girkin?
If Putin were somehow to shake off this “amazing restraint” how would it manifest itself? Is there an effective means available for him to thwart the next missile strike, the next incursion into the Surovikin Line, the next act of partisan sabotage? If he cannot counter the Ukrainians, how will he fight America and the NATO alliance?
re: Kirk
I’m convinced that Zelensky have 110% impeachable 10% goes to the big guy
dirt on Biden. Biden have no choice.
@BigFire,
It’s the only possible explanation that fits known evidence.
We know that Zelensky sent envoys to try and brief Trump Administration officials on what they knew, and that State/Justice blocked them. I don’t know if that word ever made it up to the Oval Office, but there were reports of that in the news media. Back pages, thereof, but still…
Which in and of itself is highly disturbing: The internal oligarchy within the Federal government took it upon itself to not only attempt to frame Trump, but to obscure evidence amid trying to impeach him for “blackmailing” Ukraine. Ya wonder why Zelensky didn’t have qualms about blackmailing them? Why he has done what he has?
I gotta admire the man, TBH. I wish we had leaders like him in power, but they’re just not going to magically appear out of the swamp. Trump was the best we could do, and I’m still shocked at how much good he managed, even if only by accident.
I’m also not surprised at the way the system responded to him. They have to be hiding some really, truly heinous shit to have had the reaction they did, as opposed to trying to work with and roll him.
I still kinda suspect he was a recruited intentional “lost cause” candidate meant to ensure Hillary’s election. The shock was that enough people loathed her to put him over the top, and they weren’t ready to deal with him, soooo… “Russian Collusion”, here we come.
He simply wasn’t ready to deal with the level of corruption that exists. I doubt anyone is, and I doubt that it’s capable of reform before it all caves in on them, anyway. That’s why the assholes are running up the bills and speeding up the “bust-out” operation they have going, looting the country. Everything Biden is doing at Obama’s behest (because you know damn well he ain’t smart enough to be doing this himself…) is meant to destroy the country as quickly as possible, transferring assets out to all the “allies” of the Democratic Party. The forensic accounting is gonna be lit, when all this is over with.
If I was Russia, I’d blow up a British warship in reprisal.
“As Suchomimus notes, Russia seems to be losing a naval war to a country without a navy…”
I will ask you the same question that was posed to The Gaffer: If Russia’s navy is being destroyed by Ukraine, how will they fare against the British navy?
“If Putin were somehow to shake off this “amazing restraint” how would it manifest itself?”
Precedent’s been set.
Lots of chatter by malcontents about critical infrastructure attacks. How ’bout an Alaskan native green group severing the Alaskan pipeline in a couple of places?
Jesus wept…
Y’know, it’d almost be humorous if it wasn’t actually tragic…
Let’s get a couple of points across, here: The Soviets were never the threat that the Pentagon and others portrayed them as. They. Just. Weren’t.
We know that now, looking at their utterly incompetent performance in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and elsewhere. They’re a terror threat, and that’s about it. Most of their “foreign policy victories” over the years all turned into “own goals” so fast that it’s not even funny, and the only thing keeping them afloat was Western subsidies of various kinds.
Russia is a third-world shithole masquerading as a power; at the rate they’re going, they’re not even going to be a regional one by the end of this decade. They’ve got no working power projection tools outside of what they’re expending like madmen in Ukraine against civilian apartment complexes and shopping malls. In return for which they’re stirring up enmity in what was once the Soviet Union’s industrial powerhouse, filled with very competent engineers and factory workers that used to churn out the core elements for a lot of their industry. What’s going on here is about the equivalent of Germany making war on the Ruhr, in terms of self-interest. Ukrainians have long, long memories, and they’re going to be going after Russians for the next half-century until they feel like they’ve gotten everyone responsible for this war; it’ll be like the Mossad going after the Nazis, only with a lot less restraint.
End of the day, this is going to cost Russia a hell of a lot more than they’d have ever gained, and they’re creating an implacable enemy that won’t forget or forgive–A lot like they did with the rest of Eastern Europe. Long-term, this was yet another “own goal” on a really massive scope.
It’s a mess, and the fallout you need to be worried about is what comes after Putin is eliminated for failure. It’s my guess that several regions are going to pull out of the Russian Federation, and then it’ll be pure chaos. The diplomats need to be worrying about the post-Russian Federation world a lot more than they are.
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“How ’bout an Alaskan native green group severing the Alaskan pipeline in a couple of places?”
Howzabout declaring them to be a domestic terrorist group and repealing the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act when as a counter-reprisal?
Thing of it is – an attack on the Alaskan Pipeline may just as likely be a false flag by the Obiden folks.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2022/10/ive-said-my-piece-on-nordstream-already.html
As for prospects for Russia disintegrating from within, I think that’s no more likely than civil war in the US. Reliable, unfiltered information just ain’t there to make a credible forecast. In June one fella posting here said he didn’t expect the federation to outlast ‘a few months’. “The next few months will be critical to their survival and I don’t think they’re going to make it.”
How’d that counteroffensive go?
We commoners know as much about what the common fella in Russia thinks as we do about the health benefits of graphine oxide.
Two weeks ago I was with a wealthy Russian family vacationing in the US. They were vocal in their opposition to Putin. They were also making a lot of money with their business getting government contracts in Russia. Playing to the audience I suspect.
re the Kilo damaged
“so one of these being destroyed does impact Russia’s capabilities to launch strikes over the Black Sea”
Uh, no. It’s been in drydock. Not participating in the festivities.
Also, with the attack, the caretaker crew will be released for other service. So it likely actually improves the readiness of the other boats.
“So it likely actually improves the readiness of the other boats.”
Ukraine destroyed the dry dock along with its ships and 7-8 service technicians were killed. How does the inability to service and repair ships enhance Russian naval readiness?
re: Malthus
The drydock’s damage isn’t quite as extensive as previously believed, but those two slots are currently more than unavailable until they can remove the wreckages. But the two boats are unsalvageable.