The 'Rostov-on-Don' is the only known Russian submarine casualty of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine destroyed a Russian submarine in Crimea on Friday, Kyiv's military has said, appearing to mark the latest blow to the Black Sea Fleet based around the peninsula to the south of mainland Ukraine.Ukraine 'successfully struck' Russia's Rostov-on-Don submarine in the southern Crimean port city of Sevastopol, Kyiv's military said on Saturday.
Since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv has used missiles and drones to target the Black Sea Fleet, partially based in Sevastopol. Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014, and Ukraine has vowed to reclaim it.The loss of the Rostov-on-Don 'once again proves that there is no safe place for the Russian fleet in Ukrainian territorial waters of the Black Sea,' Kyiv's military said.
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