Unmanned surface vehicles strike Admiral Makarov, flagship of Russian Black Sea Fleet

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – SUNDAY, 30 October 2022, 07:10

At the very least three ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which include the Admiral Makarov flagship, were being weakened as a outcome of the unmanned area vessel [USV] assault on 29 Oct.

Source: GeoConfirmed, a volunteer-managed outlet mapping the war in Ukraine dependent on geolocations, on Twitter

Details: GeoConfirmed investigators have analysed footage from the unmanned floor vessels [USVs are speedboat-size vessels that can pack hundreds of pounds of explosives – ed.], which roamed the harbour and the sea in close proximity to Sevastopol.

The investigators released footage of an attack on an Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate. They concluded that the Admiral Makarov is the only a person that matches this description in the Black Sea. The footage stops when the USV hits the vessel and explodes.

A further video clip indicates that the Ivan Golubets, a Natya-course minesweeper, was also attacked. The Russian Ministry of Defence said that the minesweeper sustained “insignificant” destruction.

One particular of the video clips reveals a USV roaming amongst the docked ships in the harbour, probably wanting for a goal. The footage stops when the USV hits the vessel and likely explodes. The footage suggests that the USV was positioned subsequent to at the very least four vessels and had built pretty much a complete U-transform to carry out the assault.

GeoConfirmed thinks that all the available footage implies that between six and 8 USVs were being deployed in the assault, hitting at the very least 3 Russian vessels.

GeoConfirmed claimed that Ukraine was working the USVs.

Quotation from GeoConfirmed: “Based mostly on all obtainable footage, it can be extremely most likely that:

1. USV’s penetrated THE Sevastopol harbour defence

2. > 6 USV’s ended up used

3. At the very least 3 ships were struck with an USV.”

Track record:

• On 29 Oct, explosions were described in the Russian-occupied city of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula Russian ships have been allegedly “repelling a UAVs assault”.

• The Russian Ministry of Defence said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine experienced allegedly attacked Sevastopol with drones at 04:00 on 29 October. The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation confirmed the destruction to the Ivan Golubets minesweeper.

• Russian Defence Ministry accused the British Navy for allegedly having planned and carried out “terrorist assaults” on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 fuel pipelines. The Ministry announced that preparations for the “assault” on Sevastopol were carried out less than the guidance of users of the British Navy, who are allegedly at the moment in the Ukrainian city of Ochakiv.

• The southern defence forces of Ukraine suspect that failed launches of air defence missiles by the Russian invaders could be a explanation for explosions in Sevastopol on Saturday.

• The Russian Ministry for Overseas Affairs declared that Russia was suspending its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative for an indefinite interval.

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