The Ukrainian Navy destroyed the russian patrol ship "Izumrud," which in November 2018 took part in an attack on Ukrainian boats and a tugboat in the Kerch Strait. The Ukrainian Navy announced this on its official Telegram channel on Tuesday, July 14.
“Ukrainian sailors sank a 2nd-rank border patrol ship using the Sargan-3000 unmanned maritime system near Novorossiysk,” the statement said.
As a result of the Ukrainian attack, there were casualties and injuries on the russian vessel.
Novorossiysk on the DeepState project map. Photo: screenshot.
The "Izumrud" is a Project 22460 "Okhotnik" border patrol vessel designed for patrol operations and search-and-rescue missions. The ships are operated by the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of russia, the aggressor state.
The first ship in the series was commissioned in 2009. The "Izumrud," destroyed by the Ukrainian military, was commissioned in 2014. According to data from open sources, a total of 14 such ships were built.
The Ukrainian Navy noted that the patrol ship “Izumrud” participated in the attack on Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait in November 2018. At that time, the russians opened fire, rammed, and seized two small armored artillery boats, the “Berdiansk” and the “Nikopol,” as well as the tugboat “Yany Kapu.”
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on the night of July 12–13, the Security Service of Ukraine carried out a large-scale operation during which two russian patrol boats and four car ferries were struck.
As a reminder, on July 8, the Ukrainian military used a Sea Baby maritime drone to strike a tanker belonging to russia’s “shadow fleet” near occupied Yalta.
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