Satellite shows destroyed Novocherkassk landing ship and another vessel underwater – photo

Christiaan Triebert, investigative journalist of The New York Times newspaper, has published a new satellite image of the wreckage of the large landing ship Novocherkassk belonging to the Russians, which was struck near the city of Feodosiia in occupied Crimea.

Source: Triebert on Twitter (X) 

Large landing ship Novocherkassk after the strike

Quote: "The remains of a Russian Ropucha-class landing shop at the eastern port of Feodosia can be seen smoking and largely submerged on this Maxar satellite image collected yesterday December 26. Second image from December 5 for comparison."

Large landing ship Novocherkassk before the strike

Background: 

• Explosions rang out in the area of Feodosiia in occupied Crimea at 03:00 on the night of 25-26 December. Telegram channels claim that a ship carrying Iranian ammunition had been blown up and a fire had broken out in the port.
• Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Air Force, confirmed that Ukrainian defenders had targeted the Novocherkassk ship in occupied Feodosiia. 
• The Ministry of Defence of Russia confirmed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the large landing ship Novocherkassk in occupied Feodosiia (Crimea) with missiles fired from Su-24 aircraft on the night of 25-26 December.
• Novocherkassk, a large landing ship from the Russian Black Sea Fleet, had been destroyed near Feodosiia by cruise missiles from tactical aircraft belonging to Ukraine’s Air Force.
• The Russian Defence Ministry reported that the large landing ship Novocherkassk was damaged in Feodosiia last night "during the repelling of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine using air-guided missiles".
• The Russian ministry claims that "two Ukrainian Su-24s that were launching missiles were destroyed by air defence during anti-aircraft combat". Ukraine’s Air Force refuted the statement.

Support UP or become our patron!