13-06-2024, 10:56 AM
Russia is patrolling the Black Sea with submarines after its surface fleet got walloped, Ukraine says.
Russia is using 4 submarines to monitor Black Sea, a Ukrainian official told national TV.
Dmitry Pletenchuk said 3 were cruise missile carriers & two "periodically" go to sea.
Russia has ramped up pace of its subs production, with one type worrying NATO officials.
deploying four submarines, three of which are cruise missile carriers, to patrol the Black Sea.
Russian forces "have already established practice where these submarines rotate in the morning," Pletenchuk said.
Ukraine has deployed drones, missiles, and other weaponry to go after Russian warships, including smaller vessels like tugboats. Earlier this year, Ukraine's military claimed to have destroyed a third of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
UK's defense ministry declared the fleet "functionally inactive" in March. Russia is patrolling Black Sea with submarines after its surface fleet got walloped, Two Russian sub in military exercises at the Peter the Great Gulf off the city of Vladivostok, Russia
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-u...ine-2024-6
Russia is using 4 submarines to monitor Black Sea, a Ukrainian official told national TV.
Dmitry Pletenchuk said 3 were cruise missile carriers & two "periodically" go to sea.
Russia has ramped up pace of its subs production, with one type worrying NATO officials.
deploying four submarines, three of which are cruise missile carriers, to patrol the Black Sea.
Russian forces "have already established practice where these submarines rotate in the morning," Pletenchuk said.
Ukraine has deployed drones, missiles, and other weaponry to go after Russian warships, including smaller vessels like tugboats. Earlier this year, Ukraine's military claimed to have destroyed a third of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
UK's defense ministry declared the fleet "functionally inactive" in March. Russia is patrolling Black Sea with submarines after its surface fleet got walloped, Two Russian sub in military exercises at the Peter the Great Gulf off the city of Vladivostok, Russia
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-u...ine-2024-6