A Russian warship that survived two world wars was apparently on fire today after a suspected Ukrainian missile attack. strike.
A video showed a fire reportedly on a ship in Sevastopol’s Sukharnaya Bay after explosions were heard in the annexed Crimean naval port.
According to one report from Ukrainian Telegram channel Crimean Wind, the world’s oldest active naval vessel, the 109-year-old Kommuna, was potentially hit, which was built during the reign of the last Tsar, NicholasII.
A 315ft long salvage ship, it was used during the current war when the Russian navy investigated the sinking of the fleet’s flagship, the Moskva, in 2022, according to accounts.
There was no official confirmation that the distinctive and historic Kommuna, commissioned in 1915, was hit, resulting in flames and smoke.
Nevertheless, a pro-war Russian report on PolitNavigator channel seemed to support the account of fire on the Kommuna.
Another report suggested a landing ship and another vessel had been targeted.
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The Putin-appointed Sevastopol governor acknowledged a ‘small fire’ after an incoming missile had been repelled by the port’s defences, but did not specify the ship.
The blaze, which was ‘quickly extinguished’, was caused by ‘falling fragments’ from the missile, claimed the official, Mikhail Razvozhaev.
Russian officials often attribute direct hits to falling fragments or debris.
Some reports indicate that two people were injured.
‘Divers are now also examining the water area to exclude the presence of explosive elements near the pier,’ said one Telegram channel.
Around one-third of Putin's Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed in the war, targeted by missiles and kamikaze marine drones, including several large landing ships.
As a result, his navy has lost its ability to exert influence in western parts of the Black Sea.
The Kommuna, initially named Volkhov, has served in the Russian Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist Russian Federation navies.
The warship participated in two world wars, the Russian Revolution of 1917, the subsequent civil war, and the current conflict against Ukraine.
Approximately 96 years ago, in 1928, the Kommuna raised the British submarine HMS L55 from a depth of 203ft, which had been sunk in the Gulf of Finland by Bolshevik vessels in 1919.
The Soviets used the designs as a prototype for their own Leninets class submarines.
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