UK says Russia forced to constrain its fleet to port, but its ships are still sinking

Yamal landing ship. Stock photo: Getty Images

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, has issued a comment in response to the latest Ukrainian strikes on Russian Yamal and Azov landing ships in Russian-occupied Sevastopol, Crimea.

Source: Grant Shapps on X (Twitter)

Details: Shapps said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s illegal occupation of Ukraine “is exacting a massive cost on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet which is now functionally inactive”.

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“Russia has sailed the Black Sea since 1783 but is now forced to constrain it’s [sic] fleet to port. And even there Putin’s ships are sinking!”, Shapps wrote in response to a post by the Ukrainian defence forces saying that Ukraine has successfully struck Russian Yamal and Azov Ropucha-class landing ships, a communications centre and several other Russian Black Sea Fleet infrastructure facilities in the occupied city of Sevastopol.

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