Ukraine claims to have sunk Russian landing ship

Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian warship off the coast of Crimea using naval drones, Ukraine’s military claims. The 112m Ropucha-class Caesar Kunikov landing ship from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was attacked on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian military intelligence. “The Main Intelligence Directorate, in cooperation with all the components of the Security and Defence Forces of Ukraine, annihilated the great landing ship “Caesar Kunikov” of aggressor power of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet” it stated. The General Staff of the armed forces said that the Caesar Kunikov had been in Ukraine’s territorial waters near Alupka, on the southern tip of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, when it sustained the fatal blow. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitt