{"id":18837,"date":"2024-03-05T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18837"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:27:03","slug":"ukrainian-sea-drones-damage-russian-black-sea-fleet-patrol-ship-near-crimea-says-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/03\/ukrainian-sea-drones-damage-russian-black-sea-fleet-patrol-ship-near-crimea-says-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian sea drones damage Russian Black Sea fleet patrol ship near Crimea, says Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Ukrainian sea drones damaged a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea, Ukrainian military intelligence said on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The intelligence agency said on Telegram messaging app that its special unit Group 13 attacked the Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship Sergey Kotov near the Kerch Strait.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of a strike by Magura V5 maritime drones, the Russian ship Project 22160 Sergey Kotov sustained damage to the stern, starboard and port sides,&#8221; it said. The message added that the ship was worth about $65 million.<\/p>\n<p>Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy&#8217;s chief of staff, said on Telegram on Tuesday that &#8220;The Russian Black Sea Fleet is a symbol of occupation. It cannot be in the Ukrainian Crimea,&#8221; in an apparent reference to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Train traffic was temporarily stopped on the bridge linking the Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland, according to the Telegram channel of a Russia-installed official in Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Highway traffic was also suspended for several hours before reopening just before 0700 GMT, according to the Telegram channel of the Russian-installed administration managing the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was unable to verify the reports. The Russian defence ministry did not immediately replied to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian military said last month it had destroyed a Russian landing warship near Crimea in an operation with naval drones that breached the vessel&#8217;s port side and caused it to sink.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Ukrainian sea drones damaged a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea, Ukrainian military intelligence said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,978,16,194,982,5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-0_swnen","category-security","category-report","category-world","category-international","category-politics_","category-news_","category-headline"],"views":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18840,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions\/18840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}