Several Warships Of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Leave Crimean Homeport After Ukrainian Attacks, Claims Kyiv

On Monday, Ukraine’s partisans claimed that several warships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet have reportedly set sail from the home port in Crimea after recent attacks by the military of Kyiv.

Atesh, a military movement of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians, published the claim on Telegram, wherein they described a “panic” among Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s naval fleet.

Spokespeople associated with Atesh commented about the fleeing war vessels to the Kyiv Post, and the newspaper called the operation with the ships a “systematic exodus” from the Black Sea Fleet’s port at Sevastopol.

Newsweek couldn’t verify the reported movements independently of Russia’s vessels from the zone, and Russia’s Ministry of Defense was gotten in touch via email on Tuesday.

The Atesh report regarding the fleet came after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces enhanced the attacks on Russia’s targets based in Crimea, which has served as a key strategic hub for Moscow since Putin launched a war on Ukraine in February last year.

Since the beginning of the war, Kyiv’s cruise attacks using drones and missiles have destroyed at least 17 Russian warships that are either part of or work in collaboration with the Black Sea Fleet.

This includes a hit earlier this month on the Askold, a freshly constructed small warship stationed in the Crimean port of Kerch.

In September, Ukraine’s Air Force launched a cruise missile attack that destroyed a Black Sea Fleet command building at Sevastopol.

Ukrainian Naval Forces spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk told a Ukraine-based television station that Russia had lately been detected shifting vessels from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea.

Using satellite pictures, open-source naval observers observed Russian vessels leaving Sevastopol in October.

According to Atesh members who talked about it to the Kyiv Post, Black Sea Fleet vessels have continued to leave the region, and the majority may now be gone. Many of these vessels are said to be docked in Novorossiysk, a city in the Russian Kuban region.

The Atesh movement announced in a Telegram message that its spies had managed to record the moving of enemy vessels from Crimea to Novorossiysk.

This is being done because of deadly missile attacks by Ukraine’s forces on the Russian fleet, the Atesh movement said on Telegram.

Reference: Newsweek

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