Russian Black Sea Fleet’s intel ship Ivan Khurs likely hit in wildly successful Sevastopol strike
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Ukraine may have hit the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Yuriy Ivanaov-class intelligence gathering ship Ivan Khurs in its wildly successful strike on Sevastopol on March 24, Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk told Radio Svoboda (Liberty).
"There is a suspicion that, most likely, it (the Ivan Khurs — ed.) also suffered damage,” he said.
“As soon as we collect all the information from various sources and verify it, we will be able to confirm it as a fact."
The Ivan Khurs is not a combat unit, Pletenchuk noted, but an auxiliary ship in the Russian Fleet.
The Ivan Khurs was earlier damaged in a drone attack.
Pletenchuk confirmed the defeat of two large landing ships — the Yamal and the Azov, one of them "immediately headed for repair."
The Ivan Khurs was damaged in Ukraine’s attack on Sevastopol, Russian Telegram channel Astra claimed earlier.
Strikes on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet landing ships Yamal and Azov in Sevastopol - What is known?
A series of explosions occurred in Crimea overnight on March 23-24.
At least three Ukrainian Storm Shadow cruise missiles hit a major communications hub of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, an OSINT technical investigator reported. Drones reportedly hit an oil depot near the village of Hvardiyske.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the large landing ships Yamal and Azov, a communications center, and several Russian Black Sea Fleet infrastructure facilities, Ukrainian Armed Forces’ StratCom confirmed on Telegram on March 24.
Should both ships turn out to be critically damaged, it would mark a huge loss for Russia as the enemy would have only three of 13 ships left in the Black Sea Fleet, said Ukrainian Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk.
The Ropucha-class large landing ship Yamal suffered serious damage and is forced to continuously pump water from the ship after being targeting in temporarily occupied Sevastopol, Ukraine’s HUR reported on March 25.
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