The Navy of Ukraine denied media reports about the presence of the reconnaissance ship "Ivan Khurs" near occupied Sevastopol.
Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesman for the Naval Forces of Ukraine, said this in a comment to Suspilne Crimea.
Pletenchuk noted that a minesweeper, not a reconnaissance ship, was spotted near Sevastopol. In addition, it is currently unknown whether the occupiers managed to restore the equipment of the ship "Ivan Khurs" after the defeat by the Ukrainian Navy.
"I am not yet ready to provide you with this verified information. And thirdly, now they (the russians - ed.) do not send such combat units into the sea. So that we do not destroy them. And because their effectiveness is currently minimal. They are not using such units now, but they are conducting reconnaissance in a different way. They are only taking out submarines. And even then, they have been gone for two days," the spokesman of the Ukrainian Navy emphasized.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, during the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on russian military facilities in Sevastopol, which took place overnight into March 24, the reconnaissance ship "Ivan Khurs" was damaged. Satellite images of the ship after the impact appeared.
Earlier, investigators did not rule out that during the attack on Crimea on March 23, another russian ship - "Ivan Khurs" - may have been damaged. It may become the third on the list, after the Yamal and Azov large landing ships were damaged.
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