Ukrainian kamikaze drone DESTROYS Putin’s prized £51m warship in latest humiliation

Ukrainian kamikaze drone DESTROYS Putin’s prized £51m warship in latest humiliation

[Applause] well Ukrainian officials tell us that they have sunk yet another Russian warship the Sergey Cotto one of the newest Patrol ships in Russia’s black seed Fleet this a 94 M long vessel about 1700 tons it only entered active service in the Russian Navy in July 2022 that’s after Vladimir Putin launched his

Invasion of Ukraine now Ukrainian officials have released footage which they say shows the ship sinking off the Southeastern coast of crimeia the sgate cotov is 94 M long it’s about 1,700 tons it is one of the newest war ships in Russia’s Fleet particularly in the Black Sea Fleet

Now we also know the Russian officials were forced to close the Kirch bridge that is vadir Putin’s prized infrastructure project that links the East Coast the Eastern tip of occupied Crimea to Russian territory at Kirch now that may have been related to this attack or perhaps as an indication of

Exactly where this attack took place it comes just days after weeks after a similar strike got the Caesar kunov on Valentine’s Day we know Ukraine has been using these mura sea drones which are a couple of meters long they’re powered we understand by jet ski engines and they

Sit just above the surface almost flush with the waterline uh clearly with Communications uh equipment on their top and also cameras this the footage that they broadcast back which Ukrainian officials have been sharing to confirm uh the news of these successful strikes it hasn’t been all good news for Ukraine

Though it’s worth pointing out that this successful attack on the warship does come a few days after a doomed attempt by Ukrainian Special Forces to make a landing on the Left Bank of the depro river on a peninsula coming off her son a fast attack vot with Ukrainian

Commandos Special Forces Commandos on it was uh Ambush stopped and at least four of those soldiers possibly more were shot and killed in the boat but nonetheless the broader picture is actually that Ukraine has been scoring a series of spectacular successes hitting both high value Russian warships and

Russian aircraft in other parts of the front line and that’s whil there hasn’t been much movement on the front on land where there has been movement it tends to be Russia’s grind advances particularly we’ve seen that most recently in a diva last may we saw them taking bmud so whilst Russia basic

To be throwing men and material at its assault on the front Ukraine is scoring goals at C and in the [Applause] air yeah B yeah B No There It’s worth pointing out the kotov has been attacked a number of times before it but it managed we understand to evade or survive those attacks details of which haven’t been released but this is the Sergey cot was a very modern warship if you look at it has that sort of

Telltale angular look of Warships designed to try and evade some stealth warships if you like designed to try and evade radar so what we’ve seen earlier is perhaps Ukraine launching successful strikes on perhaps less Advanced uh older warships I mean most notably we’ve seen the mosa which was the ship

Missile Cruiser of the Black Sea Fleet hit with Harpoon missiles and sunk in the first months of the war we’ve also seen a number of those much older rucha class Landing ships those are 4,000 tons uh 4,000 ton vessels which are designed to carry I think it’s about 10 main

Battle tanks that can drive up to the beach that their bowels open up and they can spew men and armor onto the beach for D-Day style Landing but those are much older vessels and we’ve also seen a number of them destroyed with similar tactics from these mbura drones what the

Strike on the S cotov perhaps represents is that Ukraine’s tactics are continuing to evolve and they’re continuing to find new ways to use the weapons they have ways to circumvent Russia’s defenses and that may or may not but it’s almost certainly linked to some of the operations we’ve seen on land some of

Those special forces operations which have been designed to take out uh early Warning Systems radar air defense batteries uh perhaps Coastal radar batteries every piece of the jigsaw that Ukraine can pull down makes Russian uh forces more vulnerable the air defense is perhaps more significant with the crew missile strikes that we’ve also

Seen because if if we look at this in the broad brush what we’ve on the one hand is these homegrown homemade Ukrainian designed and produced mura drones having devastating effects at ships at Sea in parallel we’ve seen the British and French donated Storm Shadow and scalp cruise missiles which are some

Of the you know most high-tech missiles that Ukraine has been given by its Western allies those missiles have been invading Russian air defenses Landing inside Crimea hitting static targets mostly we saw saw them hit a caliber uh sorry a kilo class uh submarine and another Landing ship those were both in

Dry docks and they weren’t moving they’ve also these missiles have also been used to hit the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet but taken together cruise missiles attacking from the air the sea drones attacking from the sea both finding ways to circumnavigate uh to invade Russia’s defenses and clearly having a huge

Impact in terms of how humiliating it is for Vladimir Putin well I suppose in one sense that depends on how much this is being reported inside Russia but the news does tend to seep out onto the the telegram channels of the military bloggers it is perhaps hard for him to

Deny and yet for all Russia’s losses there seems to be a sense of acceptance and determination resignation perhaps that Russia is going to lose huge numbers of men huge uh numbers of equipment in order to just keep slogging away at this conflict that appears to be the Russian strategy which is just to

Keep throwing resources into the meat Grinder

DRAMATIC footage shows the moment another Russian warship is blown to pieces in a massive explosion.

Footage shows Putin’s £51million Sergey Kotov corvette being struck by kamikaze sea drones near Feodosia, in occupied Crimea.

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