Ukrainian drone destroys two Russian patrol ships, says defense ministry

Two Russian Raptor patrol boats were destroyed near Snake Island by a Ukrainian Bayraktar drone, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported, citing the head of the Armed Forces General. Video of the drone targeting one of the Raptor patrol boats near the island in the Black Sea was included in the MOD post. Moscow is yet to confirm or react to the claim. #CNN #News

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  1. One of the saddest things about this is the lesson:

    Never, never, give up your nuclear weapons.

    1. @O a s i s Truth !! We were clever enough to develop nuclear weapons and never wise enough not to…

    2. @IFY0USEEKAY 😑of course who thought that Russia with it’s impeccable human rights violations would exercise their guarantees

  2. As ukrainian i can’t say anything except my words of gratitude to all our allies and, i’m not afraid this word, true friends! Thank you very much for all people in the world who helping us in our fight for survival…

    1. Why aren’t you against neo Nazi? There are hundred thousand, close to million neo Nazi in Ukraine, why?

  3. The brutality and senselessness of this war will follow Russians for generations. Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦

  4. Congratulations to the Ukrainian army, the two Russian patrol vessels were well suited and destroyed.

  5. Two patrol ships were not destroyed: they experienced accidental detonations of transferred ordinance from an oppositional source, while on special military operations conversion to sub-surface functionality.

  6. Fascinating – and agree with the major, I already for a while gave thought Ukraine will not only triumph, but will get back its lost territory including especially the Crimea …

    1. @Daniel Whyatt I think as zelensky says Ukraine cannot expect to regain old territory of Crimea as this will have to be part of a final peace agreement to end this bloody war

  7. Putin went into this thinking his military was top notch, his army is roaming around like loss puppies on the battlefield and another top general was reported to be badly injured. Remember when everyone thought Ukraine will fall in a week? I do. Best of luck to Ukraine ✊

  8. It was expected. Moskva Cruiser was the air defence unit of the Russians for their black sea fleet. So now Russian Black Sea fleet had to fall back more than range of Neptune missiles. And when ships that can make air defence fall back skies belong to Ukrainian Bayraktar drones. Now we can clearly see that Russia cant dare to make any amphibius operation to Odessa anymore.

    1. Ukraine doesn’t even need to attack russian ships. russian ships just sink themselves!!

    2. Moskva was not an air defense ship, it had no pantsir or other advanced AA systems, why do you need to lie?

    3. @Anarchy or slavery it had s300 missiles… also almost every cruiser in a cash strapped military, has some kind of air defense

  9. I feel like that message isn’t even just for Russia, it’s also for N. Korea and China, and others who pound their chests and think it would be quick and easy to just nip in and take over a country.

  10. Not only are they $3 million apiece, those two comprise of half of the Black Sea’s allocation of four of those vessels, which cannot be replaced because the Bosphorus is closed to Russian vessels. Having already lost their main defence against air attack, the Moskva, the Russians’ Black Sea blockade is looking a lot weaker.
    PS. Bayraktar drones are Turkish. I imagine their order books are filling very quickly.

    1. I mean tactically speaking these aren’t that big of a loss for Russia as these are lightly armed patrol boats and not capable of doing much other than port security/recon and ferrying small amounts of troops/supplies.

      The implications of Russian ships continuing to get destroyed by a country that has no operational navy however is not at all a good one though, and that far outweighs the actual damage done to Russian naval capability here in my opinion.

  11. Glory to Ukraine! Making the Russian forces go from being the second best in the world, to second best military in Ukraine!

  12. Thank God that Ukrainians can fight for themselves and that they have weapons. In Bosnian war 1992 to 1995 only Serbs had weapons and Bosnians and Croats had weapon embargo imposed on them. This amount of helplessness was unbearable. No wonder Vukovar and Srebrenica men were slaughtered like that.

    1. Ukraine (as geographic location) not the people is important to west for whatever reason, but they are important at least for now, while on western Balkans nobody was or still is important. That’s the difference

    2. Fight for themselves…really…they being armed trained and assisted directly by NATO…this is what is called a proxy war…ukraine has help a lot of help…alone they would be done by now.

    3. Some have guns but cannot fight
      Some can fight but have no guns
      We can fight and we have guns
      Glory be to you o lord!
      Amen!

  13. Witnessing the magnitude of the detonations aboard those two Russian patrol vessels, that really isn’t somewhere that you’d want to be!

    The highly public loss of those two military vessels will severely undermine the confidence of Russian naval crews ordered to patrol in the same areas!

    The Russian naval forces have lost a considerable number of vessels to an opponent that doesn’t actually have a navy!

    Moskva is notable for being the only fleet flagship ever to be sunk by an opponent that didn’t have a navy…

    The more Russian military assets and personnel destroyed, the safer it will be for the Ukrainian people.

  14. Well done Ukrainian soldiers, for your special operation attack on two Russian ships.👏👏

  15. Thank you, friends, from the bottom of all Ukrainian hearts 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇺🇸

  16. “Artillery brings dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.” — Frederick the Great (1740-86). *_Slava Ukraini!_*

    1. Slava Ukraine, but artillery brings misery. Not dignity. Just ask the Ukrainians themselves. And even during the time period the quote is from, war just became more deadly and soldiers were still getting bayonets to the gut by the thousand.

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