The Novocherkassk landing ship has become the latest Russian maritime casualty in Moscow’s ongoing war on Ukraine.
Ukraine’s latest successful strike against the Russian Black Sea Fleet speaks to the “trap” Moscow’s warships find themselves in, one Ukrainian parliamentary adviser has said, as the Kremlin counts the cost of a cruise missile attack on the Crimean port of Feodosia.
“The missile arrived at the same exact time and destroyed a lot of the ship’s crew, and other people who were around the ship,” Stupak added. “The number of casualties could rise.”
The Black Sea Fleet—which cannot be reinforced by vessels from other Russian fleets since Turkey closed the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits to military shipping from February 2022—is now caught in a “trap,” Stupak said.
Pro-war Russian milbloggers lamented the latest maritime setback.
