“History ended ingloriously”: in what operations did the destroyed “Caesar Kunikov” participate?

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SBU, GUR and APU have already destroyed 5 a large Russian landing ship. The latter “swimmed” in the Black Sea. The funny thing is that “Caesar Kunikov” participated in many operations around the world, but it came to an end in Ukraine. In particular, the ship served on the following missions:

• Russian troops landed in Kosovo in the Balkans in 1999;
• in Georgia was the flagship of ships during the Russian-Georgian war in 2008;
• in Syria supported the regime of Bashar al-Assad and provided support to the Syrian army in 2015 year.

I visited everywhere, despite the fact that the ship is new, by the standards of the Black Sea Fleet. And then it turned out that I participated everywhere, but the story ended ingloriously in Ukraine,” the political strategist emphasized.

The ship was created in the Soviet Union. There was another project that produced ships of the Ropukha class, but the USSR collapsed and the ship was cut up. The newest one remains – “Caesar Kunikov”. It was commissioned in 1986 and built in Poland at the Stocznia Polnocna shipyard in Gdansk. The estimated cost of the vessel is 60 – 70 million dollars.

“Caesar Kunikov” could accommodate 87 crew members on board. Most likely, they all went to the bottom with the ship. After all, the ship was off the Crimean coast, and there you need to always be on alert.

The blow was struck on the port side. He was sinking quickly. No floating facilities were seen. When the ship sank, no people jumped out. There they remained,” Boris Tizenhausen emphasized.

Details of the destruction of the large landing ship “Caesar Kunikov”

• Special forces of “Group 13” GUR MO and military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sank the Russian landing ship “Caesar Kunikov”. The defeat occurred in the territorial waters of Ukraine near Alupka thanks to maritime drones Magura V5.
• During the attack by unmanned boats, the large landing ship “Caesar Kunikov” was carrying ammunition, most likely missile weapons.
• Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin will not comment on the sinking of another Black Sea Fleet ship.
• A month after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this large landing ship was hit during a strike on March 24, 2022, in the temporarily occupied port of Berdyansk.