The missile raid on the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol didn’t hit two Russian warships. No, according Ukrainian authorities, the Sunday raid struck four ships.
The Ukrainian missile raid on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s anchorage in Sevastopol, in occupied Crimea, didn’t hit two Russian warships.
While satellite imagery of Sevastopol, registered in the days following the raid, seem to confirm damage to several vessels, it doesn’t point to any obvious sinkings. It’s possible all four of the ships the Ukrainians claim they hit—reportedly in Sevastopol’s repair yard, ironically—are fixable.
But the raid at least temporarily has reduced, by 15 percent or so, the Black Sea Fleet’s pre-war force of around a dozen landing ships.
