Russia claims that Ukraine damaged one warship in a “massive” drone strike on the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, according to the BBC.
A senior official reported the usage of nine drones. Ukraine is silent on the matter.
Russia accused British troops of taking part in both the attack and the last month’s gas pipeline explosions without offering any supporting evidence.
Russian officials were “peddling epically false statements,” according to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The strike on Saturday occurs as Ukrainian forces successfully recapture Russian-occupied territory.
Russia’s response has been to start widespread assaults on Ukrainian infrastructure, particularly the nation’s electrical grid.
The governor of Sevastopol who was installed by Russia, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that Russia’s navy had thwarted the most recent and “major” onslaught to hit the city since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February.
He claimed that no “civilian infrastructure” had been harmed and that all unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) had been shot down.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, one warship, at least, suffered minor damage.
In response to a terrorist attack on Sevastopol’s outer roadstead, the Black Sea Fleet’s naval aviation and use of naval weaponry destroyed four marine unmanned vehicles, while three further devices were destroyed on the interior roadstead, according to a statement from the ministry.
Russia also asserted that the attack on Saturday morning involved British specialised soldiers.
Additionally, it claimed that experts from the British Navy “were involved in the planning, organisation, and execution of the terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on September 26, this year, to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.”
In response, the MoD stated: “The Russian Ministry of Defense is resorted to peddling false allegations of an epic scale in order to distract from their poor handling of the unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
This made-up narrative reveals more about internal conflicts within the Russian government than it does about the west.
As part of the global campaign to transport agricultural goods from Ukrainian ports, Russia has further stated that the ships that were attacked on Saturday morning were involved in securing the “grain corridor.”
As a result of the deal, which was mediated by the UN and Turkey, Ukraine was able to resume grain exports to the Black Sea that had been halted after Russia invaded the nation. The UN secretary general personally negotiated it, and its success in resolving the world food crisis was hailed as a significant diplomatic achievement.
The arrangement may not be renewed, though, as Russia protests that its own exports are still constrained.
In recent days, Kiev has charged Moscow with purposefully slowing down ship traffic, resulting in a line-up of more than 170 boats.
The largest city in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, is Sevastopol.
The cruiser Moskva, which served as the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s flagship, was lost in April of this year as a result of a prior attack by Ukrainian forces. The 510-crew missile cruiser’s sinking was a significant symbolic and military defeat because it had led Russia’s naval assault on Ukraine.
Additionally, Ukrainian military have attacked the fleet’s base on the Crimean Peninsula in recent weeks.
An explosion took place earlier this month on the Crimean bridge, which served as a crucial symbol of Russia’s invasion of Crimea.
Russian investigators reported that three persons died in the explosion.
