Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has suffered “a collection of main assaults” in a serious blow to Vladimir Putin.
UK officers mentioned the strikes on its headquarters, which befell on September 20 and 22, have been “extra damaging and extra co-ordinated” than beforehand within the battle.
The incidents come simply days after a Russian submarine suffered “catastrophic” harm and a touchdown ship was destroyed in a missile assault on the Black Sea Fleet’s Sevastopol naval base.
Of their newest replace on the battle, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) mentioned that regardless of the setbacks, the fleet “virtually actually stays able to fulfilling its core wartime missions of cruise missile strikes and native safety patrols”.
However they added: “It’s doubtless that its potential to proceed wider regional safety patrols and implement its de facto blockade of Ukrainian ports can be diminished.
“It additionally doubtless has a degraded potential to defend its property in port and to conduct routine upkeep.”
The MoD mentioned there’s a “dynamic, deep strike battle is underway within the Black Sea”.
“That is doubtless forcing Russia right into a reactive posture while demonstrating that Ukraine’s navy can undermine the Kremlin’s symbolic and strategic energy projection from its heat water port in occupied Sevastopol,” they mentioned.
Since Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 – aspiring to seize the entire nation – his troops have solely managed to safe roughly 22% of Ukrainian land.
