How dangerous are Russian submarine missile carriers: Ukrainian Navy's response
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Submarines are currently the only missile carriers that the Russian forces can effectively use in the Black Sea. They were last deployed around 2 weeks ago during an attack on Ukraine, according to a statement from Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy.
"The attack was last carried out, it seems, a week ago. I’m afraid I might be wrong about the dates. It could have been two weeks ago... Before that, there was a strike on the Mykolaiv region, as a separate instance. The result there was zero," noted the Navy spokesperson.
According to Pletenchuk, submarines, as a distinct type of weaponry, are now hardly used by the Russian military.
The spokesperson mentioned that Russia primarily uses submarines during combined attacks to burden Ukrainian air defense units.
"Overall, of course, their missile effectiveness is far from what it was at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, for objective reasons," he concluded.
On August 3, it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had sunk the submarine Rostov-on-Don. On the same day, Ukrainian Defense Forces also struck a Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system in temporarily occupied Crimea.
For more details about the operation and how the Ukrainian Armed Forces could have sunk the Rostov-on-Don, you can read the RBC-Ukraine material.
