Russia hides warships in occupied Sevastopol after Ukrainian strikes
Photo: Large landing ship Orsk of the Russian Navy (google.com)
Russia is reshuffling the ships that remain in temporarily occupied Sevastopol in Crimea, moving them between piers. In this way, it hopes to protect them from Ukrainian strikes, according to the Crimean Wind monitoring channel.
Sources of the channel said that after the strike by Ukrainian forces on Novorossiysk, when the Project 1171 Tapir-class large landing ship was hit, its sister ship in Sevastopol was moved to another pier.
Currently, instead of Pier 14, the ship has been concealed in Sevastopol Bay, opposite Dokovaya Bay. Part of the superstructure is covered with a camouflage net, but this has not helped much.
Photo: Crimean Wind
"The occupiers, fearing Ukrainian attacks, are relocating ships in the bays of Sevastopol during the night… Only two Project 1171 large landing ships remain in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet - Orsk (built in 1968) and Nikolay Filchenkov (1975). One remains in Sevastopol, while the other has been hidden in Novorossiysk," the channel reports.
On November 25, Ukraine's Defense Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) attacked Novorossiysk in Russia. The targets included an oil terminal and a large landing ship. The ship sustained serious damage but did not sink. Satellite images later appeared online showing the moment the damaged ship was towed to a ship repair facility.
Earlier, during the night of November 14, Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Russian Navy's Novorossiysk naval base in Russia's Krasnodar region. The target again included the Sheskharis terminal. After the attack, the port of Novorossiysk suspended oil exports urgently.
Due to the strike's consequences, a state of emergency was declared in the city. Moreover, after the attack on the terminal, global oil prices rose by 3%, and overall, the Ukrainian strike halted 2% of the world's total oil supply.
