British Storm Shadow missiles struck Russian naval assets in Sevastopol dry docks, sinking the landing assault ship Minsk and severely damaging the submarine Rostov-Na-Danu, while also disabling all three major warship-sized dry docks.
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British Storm Shadow missiles struck Russian naval assets in Sevastopol dry docks, sinking the landing assault ship Minsk and severely damaging the submarine Rostov-Na-Danu, while also disabling all three major warship-sized dry docks.
the attack and defeat with Ukrainian cruise missiles of a Russian Navy's submarine docked in the currently Russian occupied city of Sevastopol overnight on September 13, 2023
Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Sergo Ordzhonikidze shipyard in Sevastopol with ten cruise missiles and three uncrewed surface vessels (USVs)
Sevastopol's Sevmorzavod Shipyard in occupied Crimea suffered a strike that reportedly destroyed a Russian landing craft and seriously damaged a submarine
The Sevastopol attack was carried out using U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow missiles (from Sky News report)
two ships under repair were damaged, 24 injured, seven missiles and all three vessels intercepted
On September 13, 2023, occupied Sevastopol came under missile attack, and a large-scale fire occurred on the territory of the shipyard. Subsequently, it became known that during the attack the submarine Rostov-on-Don was damaged.
An attack on the LLC 'Minsk' resulted in 62 occupied personnel being eliminated.
The large landing ship 'Minsk' and the submarine 'Rostov-on-Don' were damaged during an attack on a shipbuilding plant in occupied Sevastopol on September 13.
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Source story: day-572-2023-09-19