At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Navy, Vice Admiral Alexei Neizhpapa, the ratio of forces and assets of the Ukrainian Naval Forces and the Russian Black Sea Fleet was 12 to 1.
< p>After a year of great war, due to the arrival of missile systems and other weapons from partner countries, the difference in these potentials decreased threefold.
At the same time, despite the huge difference in capabilities, Ukrainian defenders continue to cause trouble for the Russians at sea using their own and Western weapons.
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According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since February 24, 2022, the Russians have lost 20 ships and boats.
Which vessels of the Russian Federation have already been knocked out and destroy — in the material.
On March 24, in temporarily occupied Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, Ukrainian defenders destroyed the landing ship Saratov. He participated in the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Georgia.
BDK Saratov, as part of a group of ships, arrived at the port of Berdyansk on March 21, 2022 to unload equipment and troops. At the same time, not even a week had passed since Saratov was destroyed by Ukrainian troops using a Tochka-U missile.
Large landing ships Tsezar KunikovandNovocherkassk were also damaged then .
On May 7, it became known that the RussianSerna type boatwas destroyed on Zmeiny Island, captured by the Russians, in the Black Sea using the Bayraktar TB2 multi-purpose attack drone, belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On May 12, one of the newest ships in the Russian fleet caught fire in the Black Sea — Logistics support vessel Vsevolod Bobrov. Failure befell the Russian ship thanks to the successful actions of the Ukrainian defenders. At the same time, the ship managed to evacuate to Sevastopol.
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< p>On April 3, Ukrainian defenders damaged a frigate of the Russian fleet of the typeAdmiral Essen. This ship has repeatedly fired missiles at peaceful Ukrainian cities, in particular Odessa.
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The biggest prize of the Ukrainian defenders was the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet — cruiser Moscow.
On April 13, 2022, Ukrainian Neptune missiles, weather conditions and the self-confidence of the occupiers helped the Ukrainian Navy destroy the ship that took part in the attack on Zmeiny Island.
The sinking of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Moscow had two meanings for the war — military-strategic and ideological-political.
This broke the Kremlin’s plans to completely seize the south of Ukraine, in particular the — Azov, the Black Sea and up to Transnistria, and also made Russians not feel omnipotent at sea.
Subsequently, the operation gave Ukraine the opportunity to de-occupy Zmeiny Island and begin a grain deal.
In addition, in the spring, Ukrainian defenders managed to destroy or damage several Raptor boats. p>
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On October 29, as a result of a drone attack “clap” rang out in Sevastopol.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced “minor damage to the sea minesweeper Ivan Golubets, designed for carrying out trawls of ships and vessels, reconnaissance and control trawling, laying fairways in minefields, participation in mine laying in the far zone from their bases.
As a result of the attack, ships were probably also damagedAdmiral GrigorovichandAdmiral Makarov.
On May 24, 2023, the reconnaissance vessel Ivan Khurs was attacked by a surface drone in the Black Sea . The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly attacked the ship with three unmanned boats approximately 140 km from the Bosphorus Strait.
On August 4, a large landing craft was shot down in the Novorossiysk Bay of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation ship Olenegorsky miner.
Although the Russian Ministry of Defense announced “repelling an attempted attack on the Novorossiysk naval base”, the network was filled with footage of how a ship leaning on its side is being towed to the shore.
The last successful attack on the Russian fleet was the September 13 attack on the Sevastopol Marine Plant in temporarily occupied Crimea.
< p>According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russian large landing ship Minsk and the submarine Rostov-on-Don were shot down.
