The video is from last May 8th but it was only in the last few hours that further details became known. In particular, the “parade ship” used by Vladimir Putin appears to have been hit and disabled on the ship Black Sea. Once again the operational area would have been the waters around the I.only from the snakes.
Ukrainian Navy video
Kyiv Armed Forces released video on Sunday clearly showing a drone hitting a naval vessel. On the Ukrainian Navy’s Facebook page, the date is exactly May 8.
Another UCAV-TB2 video posted by the Ukrainian Navy that appears to show attacks on two other Russian Fast Attack Raptor Ships.https://t.co/f2Lv1ntE05 pic.twitter.com/4O55pJBZiX
-Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 8, 2022
In the images we see a ship first in the crosshairs of an unmanned aircraft and then hit by at least one bomb. That rocket Detached from the drone, it hit the mark. Within seconds the ship is on fire and likely badly damaged. “Island of Snakes – so the headline of the Ukrainian Navy’s page – is now the point where the Russian racists can not return”.
The article explains that the vehicle concerned is a Birds of prey. A patrol boat of the same model as the two a few days ago, back in the waters off Snake Island. The island where, in the first hours of the war, one of the most famous episodes of the conflict took place, when the Ukrainian garrison openly refused to surrender to the orders of the Russian ships.
The video released on Sunday lasts less than a minute and shows the raid that hit the raptor. As in the other videos of the Ukrainian Navy, there is background music that accompanies the most prominent phases. There are also hints of drones Bayraktar TB2, the Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle owned by the Kiev Air Force. The attack on the Russian patrol boat would have started from one of these drones.
“Putin’s ship hit”
A few days later, more details of the raid emerged. As highlighted by the Daily Mail, the Telegram Ukraine Now channel reported that the Raptor hit was traditionally used by Wladimir Putin.
“We received information that one of the wrecked Raptor boats in the area of Snake Island was Putin’s parade boat – it says – The ship is distinguished by the white color of its hull. It is also a specially equipped parade boat with stern number 001″.
“On board,” according to the announcement on the above-mentioned Telegram channel, “Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has held military parades in St. Petersburg and Sevastopol several times.” In other words, it would be the vehicle that Putin gets into to inspect the other ships, check out the Russian naval vessels, and make ceremonial speeches.
The Daily Mail itself stressed that at the moment the leak comes only from Ukrainian sources, so it is difficult to understand its veracity until other confirmations arrive from other actors involved. All is silent from Moscow. Should the news be confirmed, the news would be sensational: Russia would indeed have lost another important ship of the Black Sea Fleet, as well as the one used by the Russian President in the most solemn ceremonies.