The damaged ship docked on the morning of Friday, August 5, at Chicken Wharf. The previous day, the media had reported smoke here when the ship was in high seas.
The Project 22160 type patrol ship Vasily Bykov of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation entered Sevastopol Bay on Friday morning, August 5, at 09:15. Crimea reported it. Realities.
The publication stated that the starboard side of the ship in the stern area was on fire. An army launcher is located at the very stern.
The ship, with the help of tugboats, docked at Chicken Wharf at 09:30.
It should be noted that the information that a Russian ship suddenly started smoking near Sevastopol appeared in the media on Thursday, August 4.
“Strange things” were happening yesterday in the Black Sea. First, the patrol ship released smoke baits, and after that it started to get serious,” noted Politics of Ukraine, which also published the corresponding photo.
On the same day, naval expert HI Sutton on the OSINT project reported in his Twitterthat a Russian warship near the occupied Sevastopol suddenly began to emit a curtain of smoke, after which it was enveloped in clouds of black smoke.
The expert suggested that the Russian ship’s camouflage with the help of smoke baits did not help her escape from being hit by a Ukrainian missile which is why she was enveloped in clouds of black smoke. However, there is no final clarity on this matter.
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The Black Sea Fleet has four project 22160 patrol ships: Vasily Bykov (tail number 368), Dmitry Rogachev (375), Pavel Derzhavin (363) and Sergey Kotov (383).
Since the beginning of the Russian army’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the side numbers of all ships have been painted to complicate the identification of units of the same type.
A patrol ship with a burnt part and a launcher on the stern entering Sevastopol Bay was recorded in July.
Each of the project 22160 patrol ships can be armed with the Kalibr-K modular missile system with Kh-35 missiles or missiles of the Kalibr family. But according to intelligence, cruise missile launchers are not yet attached to these ships.
Recall that the aggressor country of Russia on the morning of July 31 announced an “attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine” on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol. The occupiers said six people were injured as a result.
In addition, the so-called “senator from Crimea” Olga Kovitidi said that the drone attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol was carried out not from outside, but from the city. Thus, the occupiers admitted that the strike was not delivered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Source: korrespondent
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