Russia Lost a Fifth of Its Black Sea Fleet in Last 4 Months: UK

• Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is getting smaller, says UK’s protection secretary Grant Shapps. 
• “Over the previous 4 months 20% of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed,” Shapps wrote on X.
• The fleet has confronted a number of setbacks over the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is ending the 12 months on a nasty observe.

“They have not seen that over the previous 4 months 20% of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed,” UK protection secretary Grant Shapps wrote on X on Tuesday.

Shapps made the remarks whereas reposting a video of a Ukrainian assault on a Russian touchdown ship at a Black Sea port, which happened on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s missiles had struck the Russian warship Novocherkassk whereas it was at Feodosiya in Russian-controlled Crimea. Russia’s protection ministry confirmed on the identical day that the ship had been “broken,” per state-run information outlet TASS.

The continued Russia-Ukraine conflict has seen the Black Sea Fleet enduring a number of setbacks.

Final 12 months, Russian officers mentioned the fleet’s flagship Moskva had sunk after an explosion occurred aboard.

Though Russia’s naval energy is way bigger than Ukraine’s, the previous’s navy has struggled towards the latter’s exploding maritime drones.

In September, Ukraine launched a missile assault on the Sevastopol Shipyard in Russian-controlled Crimea. The assault on the shipyard, which performs a essential position in servicing the Black Sea Fleet, managed to wreck two Russian navy vessels.

Representatives for Russia’s protection ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider despatched exterior common enterprise hours.