💥 Attack

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.

Sevastopol, Crimea
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Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrinform Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post UNIAN Censor.NET

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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.

Ukrinform → Source tone: likely

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

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Sergo Ordzhonikidze shipyard in Sevastopol with ten cruise missiles and three uncrewed surface vessels (USVs)

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Sevastopol's Sevmorzavod Shipyard in occupied Crimea suffered a strike that reportedly destroyed a Russian landing craft and seriously damaged a submarine

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: uncertain

The Sevastopol attack was carried out using U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow missiles (from Sky News report)

Kyiv Post → Source tone: uncertain

two ships under repair were damaged, 24 injured, seven missiles and all three vessels intercepted

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

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.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

An attack on the LLC 'Minsk' resulted in 62 occupied personnel being eliminated.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

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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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:31.461Z

Source story: day-572-2023-09-19