💥 Attack

HUR special forces used anti-ship drones to hit and sink the railcar-capable ferry Slavyanin in the Kerch region

April 8, 2026 Kerch, Crimea

Verified Independently confirmed by 5 sources

Stefan Korshak (Substack) Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post Censor.NET

Multiple high-reliability sources confirm the core facts of this event.

Entities

Slavyanin ferry (weapon_system) HUR special forces (military_unit) Ukrainian General Staff (organization) Bastion-M coastal missile system (weapon_system) Slavyanin railway ferry (weapon_system) Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) (organization) Unmanned Systems Forces (military_unit) Robert "Magyar" Brovdi (person) Feodosia (location) 414th Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade (military_unit) Bastion (weapon_system) Maritime oil terminal in Feodosia (location) Bastion-M (weapon_system) Morskoy Oil Terminal (location)

Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

HUR special forces use anti-ship drones to hit and according to them put out of action for good the last railcar-capable ferry left in the Kerch region, a ship called the Slavyanin. According to HUR it sank

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian forces struck oil depots in Feodosia and Hvardiiske, Crimea

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian drones struck a maritime oil terminal in Feodosia, Russian-occupied Crimea.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

Ukraine's General Staff claims and published imagery showing a Bastion-M system destroyed near Sofiivka.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian drones struck the oil depot in Feodosia causing a fire with at least two tanks burning

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:30.902Z

Source story: day-1506a-2026-04-14