Drone strike targets major Russian shipbuilding enterprise on Baltic Sea - photos, videos
Russian shipyard in Vyborg (Photo: Exilenova+ Telegran channel)
Drones attacked a shipbuilding plant in Vyborg, Russia's Leningrad Oblast, overnight, damaging a Project 23550 patrol icebreaker, volunteer and Defense Minister advisor Serhii Sternenko reported on March 25.
Residents reported a fire on the enterprise's territory as a dry cargo ship caught fire, he wrote.
Exilenova+ Telegram channel published a photo of the damaged vessel in the port at the Vyborg Shipyard, one of Russia's key shipbuilding enterprises specializing in the construction of civilian ice-class vessels and offshore equipment.
The photo likely shows the Purga patrol icebreaker, a Project 23550 vessel, whose completion was planned to be transferred to the Admiralty Shipyards, the Telegram channel wrote.
The Admiralty Shipyards were previously considered a site for completing the Purga patrol icebreaker, now under construction at the Vyborg Shipyard for the Russian FSB border service.
Drones attacked Leningrad Oblast overnight on March 25. A fire was reported at the Ust-Luga port, which, alongside the recently attacked Primorsk, is the second-largest Russian oil export hub on the Baltic Sea.
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