Naval drone damages a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea

4 August, 2023 Landing ship Olenegorskiy Gornyak of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy. Photo from open sources During an attack of naval drones on the Russian naval base in Novorossiysk, a large landing ship of the Russian Navy was damaged.

Blogger and volunteer Ihor Lachenkov published a video featuring a Russian ship being destroyed by a kamikaze boat. The Russians are also publishing videos of a damaged Russian ship in the Black Sea on social networks. Russian Telegram channels and social networks have already traditionally blamed Ukraine for the attack by unmanned vessels.

Preliminarily, it is the large landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy, which is currently in the Black Sea. According to the video footage, the ship was damaged near the shore.

The video shows a naval drone attacking a Russian ship, approaching the port side of the ship, then the video ends. This may indicate the defeat of the Russian landing ship. The damaged Russian warship is now listing to port.

Presumably, one of the interior compartments of the ship is filled with water as a result of sustaining a hole. It is being towed to the Russian Navy base in Novorossiysk. The landing craft is accompanied by rescue vessels.

As previously reported, on Friday morning, the Russians reported a naval drones attack on the Russian military base in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai.

Landing ship Olenegorskiy Gornyak of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy. Photo from open sources

The mayor of Novorossiysk, Andrey Kravchenko, said that the Project 775 large landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak and the P-349 Suvorovets anti-saboteur boat were involved in repelling the attack of surface drones.

Although the video shows that the landing ship did not perform any manoeuvres, she was simply near the shore. On Friday morning, the Ministry of Defence of the aggressor country reported an alleged attack by two unmanned naval boats, which were allegedly destroyed by fire from Russian ships guarding the outer raid of the naval base.

A temporary ban on ship traffic was imposed in the port of Novorossiysk on Friday morning.