Black Sea Fleet

Russia's defence ministry said early on Friday that it had thwarted overnight Ukrainian attacks on a naval base in the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula.

"Tonight, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the use of two unmanned sea boats, attempted an attack on the Novorossiysk naval base of the Russian Armed Forces," the ministry said on Telegram.

Russia's navy carried out a live fire "exercise" in the Black Sea, Moscow's defence ministry said Friday, days after the Kremlin declared it would consider ships travelling to Ukraine through the waterway potential military targets.

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The other drone exploded, but did not damage the object it was targeting, Razvozhayev added.
He previously wrote on Telegram that the Black Sea Fleet repelled a drone attack on the outer anchorage of Sevastopol, reports TASS.

He added that the sunken Russian flagship will one day become a popular spot for divers.
"One year ago, the naval forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine changed history. The missile cruiser Moscow, the 'Russian warship' flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, was hit by a well-aimed strike from a Ukrainian Neptune missile and sank the next day," said Reznikov.

As the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, announced on his Telegram channel, a total of three drones that tried to enter the bay were destroyed and the warships were not destroyed.
"Our sailors shot at them with small arms. Air defense was also working," wrote the governor of Sevastopol, where the main base of the Black Sea Fleet is located.

Military-political expert Yakov Kedmi thinks that these maneuvers are related to a special military operation in Ukraine.
At the beginning of this year, analysts of the French monitoring service "Naval News" reported that all the ships of the Black Sea Fleet had gone to sea.

Russia's defense ministry said British naval personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline last month, directly accusing the NATO member of sabotaging key Russian infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia's suspension of the Black Sea grain export agreement requires a "strong" response from the United Nations and the G20.

The Russian army accused Ukraine of a "massive" drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea on Oct. 29, claiming the UK helped in the strike that damaged a ship.