UK says Russia forced to constrain its fleet to port, but its ships are still sinking
Pravda Ukraine
Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, has issued a comment in response to the latest Ukrainian strikes on Russian Yamal and Azov landing ships in Russian-occupied Sevastopol, Crimea.
Source: Grant Shapps on X (Twitter)
Details: Shapps said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s illegal occupation of Ukraine “is exacting a massive cost on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet which is now functionally inactive”.
“Russia has sailed the Black Sea since 1783 but is now forced to constrain it’s [sic] fleet to port. And even there Putin’s ships are sinking!”, Shapps wrote in response to a post by the Ukrainian defence forces saying that Ukraine has successfully struck Russian Yamal and Azov Ropucha-class landing ships, a communications centre and several other Russian Black Sea Fleet infrastructure facilities in the occupied city of Sevastopol.
Background:
- Reports late on 23 March said that cruise missiles have hit the main communications centre of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the occupied city of Sevastopol, Crimea.
- UK Defence Intelligence said on 20 March that Russia was making efforts to expand and improve its use of camouflage to mitigate the heavy losses suffered by its Black Sea Fleet and Aerospace Forces over the past two years.
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