Ukraine destroys one of Putin's newly-built warships in daring missile strike in Russian-annexed Crimea. Since launching its counteroffensive against Moscow's forces this summer, Kyiv has ramped up attacks on the peninsula.
The downed vessel was named as the newly-built Askold missile shipUkraine has destroyed one of Putin's newly-built warships in a daring missile strike in Russian-annexed Crimea.
Footage shows the strike hit Butoma shipyard in Kerch, close to Putin's major bridge linking the annexed peninsula to Russia 'Air defence systems shot down 13 of the cruise missiles. As a result of being hit by an enemy cruise missile, a ship located at the plant was damaged.'Debris from the downed missiles also fell on a nearby dock, but no-one was injured, Crimea's Russian-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov said.
The Askold is a Project 22800 Karakurt warship, and three are being built at the Russian-occupied shipyard READ MORE: Ukraine launches daring new kamikaze drone attack in bid to destroy Russia's major £3bn bridge to Crimea Advertisement Some accounts say the Askold had moved to Novorossiysk, like many Russian Black Sea warships, further from Ukraine's missile range.
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