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Ukraine’s kamikaze ‘Sea Baby’ drone damaged a Russian missile hovercraft – meaning four Putin vessels have been hit in three days in the Black Sea.
The Samum, a Bora-class hovercraft, had to be towed into Sevastopol harbour after the strike, it was reported.
A picture said to have been taken shows the vessel in dock evidently concealing reported ‘significant’ damage to its right or starboard side.
The hovercraft was towed ‘with a large stern trim and starboard roll’, according to the Ukrainian SBU intelligence service.
The ‘Sea Baby’ is a newly developed Ukrainian-made marine drone capable of functioning in a storm.
It was used to strike the Crimean Bridge linking Russia to the annexed Black Sea peninsula.
The Samum was attacked close to the entrance of Sevastopol harbour in Crimea.
The Russians admitted an attack but said it was repelled.
In another Ukrainian Storm Shadow missile and drone strike this week the the £250 million Kilo-class attack submarine Rostov-on-Don was rendered inoperable when it was his in Sevastopol shipyard.
The Samum, a Bora-class hovercraft, had to be towed into Sevastopol harbour after the strike (Picture: Artur Chirkov/Virtual Sevastopol)
The Russian large landing warship Minsk was also badly damaged in the same dry-dock repair yard.
Some Ukrainian sources have claimed Russia has concealed the deaths of 24 people in the strike.
Separately, a kamikaze sea drone damaged the Vasily Bykov patrol ship in yet another blow to dictator Vladimir Putin.
A video shows this attack.
Putin also lost a Triumf air defence system costing $1.2 billion in a drone and Neptune missile attack on Crimea.
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