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Earlier, Kyiv Post reported a Russian missile ship in the Kaliningrad region was set fire and sustained heavy damage due to a special operation by Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR), on Sunday, April 7.The missile ship, the Serpukhov, was stationed at the Baltiysk Naval Base in Russia’s westernmost region of Kaliningrad, which is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. The source said information about victims was being clarified, but the ship itself was “not well.” And repairs will take a long time,” Kyiv Post source said

Ukraine war latest: Russian missile ship set on fire near Kaliningrad. The Russian missile ship Serpukhov, which was docked off the exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, was set on fire on April 8.

In a post on Telegram, the agency said that the fire had "disabled" the ship and that "its means of communication and automation were "completely destroyed." military intelligence shared a video appearing to show a fire breaking out on the ship.
A Ukraine's military intelligence confirmed to Kyiv Independent that its operatives were behind the fire. It was the first such attack on Russian naval assets in the Baltic Sea.

In recent months, Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Russia's Black Sea Fleet targets in occupied Crimea, successfully targeting several ships and forcing some Russian vessels to redeploy to safer waters.

Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's navy, said on March 30 that the Russian Navy had withdrawn nearly all its major ships from ports in occupied Crimea as a result.

According to the website of the Russian Navy, the Serpukhov is a Buyan-M missile corvette, and is 74 meters long (242 feet), and contains a variety of different weapons systems.

Russian authorities announced earlier on April 8 that the Russian ice navigation vessel Katerina Velikaya caught fire while undergoing repairs at the shipyard Dalzavod in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.

One person was killed, and three others were injured, Russian authorities said, adding that the circumstances of the fire were under investigation.