According to the U.K. Ministry of Defense intelligence update on Aug. 9, the Russian merchant tanker Sig[1] was “attacked and disabled near the Kerch Strait” on Aug. 4 by a sea drone, or Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV). The night before, a Russian Navy l…
9 August, 2023 LHD “Olenegorsky Gornyak” in the dry dock in Novorossiysk, August 8, 2023. Photo credits: EarthCache satellite image.
The damaged Russian Project 775 “Olenegorsky Gornyak” large landing ship was brought to the dry dock.
OSINT analyst M…
Russian targets are “the best training ground” for Ukrainian weapons, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksii Danilov wrote on Twitter on Aug. 5.[1]Danilov said that with each new combat mission, Ukrainian combat unmanned aerial …
Ukraine’s Naval Forces officially declared on Aug. 4[1] the waters of Anapa, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik, Tuapse, Sochi, and Taman, located in the Russian-controlled part of the Black Sea, as a “war risk” area. This announcement follows a series of…
It will be “problematic” for Russia to repair its landing vessel Olenegorskiy Gornyak, which was reportedly hit[1] by a surface drone on Aug. 4, in the near future, the Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Intelligence’s spokesperson Andrii Yu…
Russian Ropucha-class landing vessel Olenegorskiy Gornyak, which was reportedly hit[1] by a surface drone on Aug. 4, “represents the largest Russian naval vessel seriously damaged or destroyed since the sinking of the cruiser Moskva,” in April l…
The occupation authorities of annexed Crimea have stated that the fleet detected an uncrewed surface vessel moving in the Sevastopol maritime zone, in the open sea.
Source: Mikhail Razvozhayev, the so-called governor of occupied Sevastopol
Details: Raz…
UK Defence Intelligence has noted that the Olenegorskiy Gornyak ship, which was attacked the day before in the port of Novorossiysk, has become the largest seriously damaged Russian warship after the sinking of the Moskva cruiser.
Source: UK Ministry o…
The State Bureau of Investigation, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, has served a notice of suspicion on Russian oligarch Yevgeny Giner, who built two thermal power plants in temporarily occupied Crimea and supplied ammunition to the Russi…
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Aug. 4 that 13 Ukrainian drones were shot down in Crimea overnight, and two unmanned surface vessels were destroyed while attacking a naval base in Russia’s Novorossiysk.According to the ministry, Ukraine …