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UK says Russia forced to constrain its fleet to port, but even there its ships are sinking

Sunday, 24 March 2024, 19:22
UK says Russia forced to constrain its fleet to port, but even there its ships are sinking
Yamal landing ship. Stock photo: Getty Images

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, has commented on the latest Ukrainian strikes on two Russian landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov, in Russian-occupied Sevastopol, Crimea.

Source: Grant Shapps on X (Twitter)

Details: Shapps said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin's illegal occupation of Ukraine "is exacting a massive cost on Russia's Black Sea Fleet which is now functionally inactive".

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"Russia has sailed the Black Sea since 1783 but is now forced to constrain its fleet to port. And even there Putin's ships are sinking!", Shapps tweeted in response to an announcement by the Ukrainian defence forces that Ukraine had successfully struck the Russian Ropucha-class landing ships Yamal and Azov, as well as a communications centre and several other Russian Black Sea Fleet infrastructure facilities in the occupied city of Sevastopol.

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