KYIV: A rare Russian attack on a Ukrainian warship killed two servicemen and others are unaccounted for, a spokesperson for Ukraine\u2019s navy told AFP on Friday.<\/p>\n
Russia said a day earlier it had sunk a Ukrainian reconnaissance ship, the Simferopol, in the Danube River delta in one of its first successful hits with a naval drone.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s admission that a ship was hit is rare, as both Moscow and Kyiv are reluctant to disclose military losses.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are still searching for several soldiers,\u201d who were on the targeted ship, navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk told AFP. He declined to confirm the vessel had been hit by a drone or where the attack took place.<\/p>\n
Others were wounded in the attack, Pletenchuk said.<\/p>\n
Ukraine, which had a much smaller maritime presence than Russia before the invasion, has deployed naval drones to significant effect throughout the war since Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n
But for Russia they are a relatively new innovation. Its defense ministry published Thursday black-and-white footage of the claimed attack, which showed a large explosion on the water.<\/p>\n
A string of successful Ukrainian naval drone attacks forced Russia to move its fleet out of the western part of the Black Sea earlier in the conflict.<\/p>\n
Kyiv has also been able to open an export corridor along its southern coast to enable vital sales of agricultural goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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