Ukraine’s military says it attacked and destroyed a Russian submarine while it was anchored at a port in the occupied Crimean peninsula.
The Rostov-on-Don, a kilo-class attack submarine launched in 2014, sank after it was struck in a missile attack on the port city of Sevastopol on Friday, Ukraine’s general staff said in a statement.
It was reportedly one of four submarines operated by Russia’s Black Sea fleet capable of launching Kalibr cruise missiles. The Russian defence ministry has not commented.
Officials in Kyiv said the attack also destroyed four S-400 air defence systems protecting the peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
“And Russia’s internal security service, the FSB, recently said it foiled a Ukrainian plot to destroy its last remaining aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov. The ship, launched in 1985, has been undergoing repairs since 2018.”
I hope Ukraine can still make this happen. That would a be huge win, even if the carrier is never functional and isn’t in the black sea. Imagine if Russia no longer even had a carrier. That’d be one way to put them in their place.
All Ukraine has to do is nothing. The Kuznetsov has about a 75% chance of sinking every time it puts to sea
My understanding is that Russias maintenance cost on that carrier is so much higher than its capabilities that Russia is trying to bait Ukraine into expending resources attacking it.
So hit the docks and maintenance facilities it’s at, not it itself
I have a friend who actually was serving on this aircraft carrier. It’s hell and the crew was dis moraled due to lack of basic needs like towels and working bathrooms.
Sunking Admiral Kuznetsov would look like destroying mental asylum for depressed patients
I’ve heard it’s a bit like a labyrinth where nobody even has up-to-date schematics of the passages on the ship, and a lot of spaces are just sealed and conserved. And it stinks everywhere.