Russia claims it has destroyed Ukraine's last remaining warship
Ukrainian warship Yury Olefirenko
Russia says that it has destroyed Ukraine's last remaining warship. The warshipYury Olefirenko was reportedly destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces. It was the Ukrainian Navy's last standing warship on the Port of Odessa, the largest Ukrainian seaport and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin.
"On May 29, a high-precision strike by the Russian Air Force on a ship anchorage site in the port of Odesa destroyed the last warship of the Ukrainian Navy, the 'Yuri Olefirenko'," the Russian army said in its daily briefing.
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Kyiv has not reacted to the Russian assertion related to the incapacitation of the Soviet-era naval ship first commissioned in the 1970s.
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The ship was named in memory of a Ukrainian marine who perished in the War in Donbas, which began in 2014 in Eastern Ukraine when separatists allegedly backed by Moscow seized government buildings in the region.
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Since 2014 to February 2022, Yuri Olefirenko was widely described as Ukraine's defendant in the Black Sea.
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Earlier on Monday, Ukraine’s military saidthat heavy air strikes had led to a fire and damaged infrastructure at the port of Odesa.
The port of Odesa is a key grain export hub, and a crucial element of Turkey and the UN-brokeredgrain deal between Russia and Ukraine.
The port of Odesa also has a naval base, which at the time of filing this report, remains under Russian control.
The Ukrainian military’s southern command said on Monday it was determining the extent of the damage at the time.
Disclaimer: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While WION takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos.
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