Ukraine claims fighter jets have destroyed a large Russian warship in Crimea | DW News

Ukraine claims fighter jets have destroyed a large Russian warship in Crimea | DW News

Ukraine says its fighter jets have destroyed a large Russian warship docked in the port of Theodosia in occupied Crimea footage from the town shows a huge explosion overnight Russia confirms the ship was damaged and says one person was killed Moscow also says air defense systems destroyed the Ukrainian fighter

Jets that targeted the ship several buildings in the area suffered damage believed to have been caused by a blast wave from the explosion and earlier DW’s Matias Berlinger in keev told me more about the Russian naval ship yeah the ship was a landing ship uh that’s uh designed to bring troops uh to

The coast who then uh land on the coast it’s been a Soviet ship built in the sometime between the 1970s and and 1990s and um uh it’s uh it’s been in fiod doia uh at the moment and it was hit there what we’ve seen is that there was a very

Powerful explosion videos are out in the internet um and uh that um suggests that the ship might have been severely damaged or destroyed as the ukrainians say however the Russians say it had been merely damaged Matias another detail is that the ship was allegedly carrying Iranian drones that are being used by

Russia against Ukraine what if you heard about these yeah some Ukrainian media are reporting that uh that it had Iranian uh whatever ammunitions uh on board but I haven’t seen any confirmation for that um the power of the explosion suggests that there was something explosive uh at

This site on the ship or or nearby um but there’s no confirmation about uh the freight uh of the ship mattius back in April 2022 Ukraine sank the mosa which uh was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet how beneficial are attacks and victories like this from both a a

Military and a PR point of view back home I think the biggest benefit of this for Ukraine is actually an economic and humanitarian benefit because uh um the Black Sea Fleet uh several ships have been hit not only the mosa but uh also Al others who were in docks or somewhere

Else and um that makes it very difficult and dangerous for the Black Sea Fleet to navigate in the Black Sea Fleet and in the Black Sea and um that makes it uh uh possible for Ukraine to use these corridors that they have unilaterally declared to bring out goods from Ukraine

Um that’s something uh uh that Ukraine has been doing since Russia uh um um left the agreement on the shipment of grain uh that was in place earlier and the reason why Russia is not really attacking these ships is partly uh also because they do not have the control of

The Black Sea as they used to they have brought their ships back to uh um the Russian Coast um and there are rumors that they are planning to open another base in abazia that’s the part of Georgia that um uh split off uh in the 1990s and that is under Russian um yeah

That’s is basically uh a Russian protectorate um so it puts them under a lot of pressure uh uh what Ukraine is doing here DW’s Matias Bing there in ke Matias thanks so much for that to Ukraine now where more than half of the country’s children have been displaced

At some point during this war some have returned to their homes but many can cannot fighting an occupation has also forced hundreds of schools to close it’s an educational crisis for the next generation of ukrainians DW correspondent Matias Binger reports from the outskirts of keev on the battle to

Bring kids back to the classroom the war is still very much present even in their games during a break Seven Fields is a special School in the KE suburbs it only accepts children directly affected by the war 9-year-old Nazar has lost his father in the fighting I hope he’s fine up there in

Heaven I want him to have a good life up there for many of them this is already their second Christmas with one parent missing a loss which isn’t always made easier by the passage of time cilla’s father was killed on the second day of the war it’s good to know that people

Understand you here they do I went to summer camp with children who had not lost anybody I told them about my father most understood but there was one boy who told me to just leave it said how can one leave something like this it’s not possible you cannot forget

This this used to be a private school there are no more than 10 to 12 children in each class and there’s lots of stuff to do when the war started the surrounding area was temporarily occupied after the Russians left the school’s founder Oxana vola turned it into a summer camp for children affected

By the war and when the school year started some of the children stayed so Oxana turned it back into a school with a difference they are children but they are much more like adults their thoughts are not childlike these are children of the war their thoughts are deeper their

Priorities and values in life are deeper than when this was a private school and it was all about fun more than 2,000 schools across the country have had to close for many children online classes are the only option here the children board at the school during the semester and return to

Their families on holidays each day is full of activities a welcome distraction from the weight they carry we mostly talk about positive things sometimes at night we might turn to these difficult topics but mostly we don’t the school operates on donations from organizations and private businesses a small glimmer of hope in a

Country where millions of children have lost their homes and their schools

Footage from the port of Feodosia in occupied Crimea shows a huge explosion overnight. Russia confirms the ship was damaged and says one person was killed.

Moscow also says air defense systems destroyed the Ukrainian fighter jets that targeted the ship. Several buildings in the area suffered damage, believed to have been caused by a blast wave from the explosion.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the country’s air force on the Telegram social media site on Tuesday for the overnight attack on Feodosia in occupied Crimea that Ukrainian officials believe destroyed a Russian landing craft.
“I am grateful to our Air Force for the impressive replenishment of the Russian underwater Black Sea fleet with another vessel. The occupiers will not have a single peaceful place in Ukraine,” he wrote, implying the ship had been sunk.

So far, Russian officials have only acknowledged the vessel taking damage.
But unverified images purporting to show the overnight airstrike showed a large explosion at the scene which Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday they believed to be a munitions explosion on board.

“We can see how powerful the explosion was, what the detonation was like. After that, it’s very hard for a ship to survive, because this was not a rocket, this is the detonation of munitions,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told Radio Free Europe.

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