British Specialists Aided Kiev's Drone Attack on Sevastopol - involving nine UAVs & seven autonomous maritime (unmanned) vehicles
The Russian Defence Ministry says four naval drones were destroyed by the Black Sea Fleet, three more were destroyed closer to the coastline.
Minor damage was sustained to a nautical minesweeper and a barrier along the bay.
Those behind a major drone attack on the Russian naval base in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol made active use of a UN-brokered Black Sea grain corridor, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement after studying the wreckage of the unmanned combat vehicles.
The ministry’s specialists retrieved the navigational modules of the drones destroyed by the Russian warships and naval aviation, the statement said, adding that the Canadian-made devices stored data on the vehicles’ path to their target.
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Most of them were launched from the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, not far from the port city of Odessa, the Russian military said. “The naval drones were then moving within the security zone of the grain corridor before changing course and heading towards the Russian naval base in Sevastopol,” the statement said.