The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has announced that intelligence units destroyed the large Russian amphibious assault ship Caesar Kunikov, which was in Ukrainian territorial waters near Alupka.
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Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence has published a video allegedly showing the attack on the ship.
Ukrainian media reported on the sinking of Caesar Kunikov based on their own sources. According to Ukrainska Pravda, the attack on the landing ship took place on February 14 by drones of the Main Directorate of Intelligence.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia did not respond to the statement from the General Staff of Ukraine. Prior to this, the agency reported that on February 14, six unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the Black Sea.
Caesar Kunikov is one of the largest amphibious ships in the Russian military fleet on the Black Sea, built in 1986. The ship, which is 112.5 meters long and 15 meters wide, can carry 650 tons of cargo over 4700 miles. Its regular crew consists of 87 people.
Russia used Caesar Kunikov in August 2008 during the war against Georgia, as part of military operations of the Black Sea Fleet. Specifically, on August 10, it served as the flagship of a group of Russian ships in a clash with a group of Georgian boats.
In February 2022, at the start of the full-scale Russian war in Ukraine, Caesar Kunikov was in the occupied port of Berdyansk. It was damaged in March of the same year when Ukrainian forces sank the landing ship Saratov.
