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Commercial satellite imagery showed a Russian Serna-class lander making a sharp turn in the Black Sea, near the smoke trail left by a missile that may have been missed.
The US company Maxar today released a commercial satellite image taken on May 12 near the Black Sea outpost Zmiinyi Island near the city of Odessa in southern Ukraine, showing the US Serna-class light landing craft. Russia Sharp turns at sea.
In this photo taken on May 12, a Serna-class landing craft moves near a suspected missile wake. picture: Maxar.
Next to the maneuvering Russian landing craft is a line of smoke that Maxar believes is a missile fired by the unit Ukraine Launch on this ship. The sharp turn appeared to have helped the Cerna-class amphibious ship dodge the attack, causing the missile to miss its target and fall into the sea.
Russian and Ukrainian forces have recently engaged in heavy fighting near the island of Zmini for a strategic position to control a large swath of the Black Sea. Maxar satellite imagery also showed another Serna-class lander sinking in the dock on Zmini Island alongside a barge and a large crane.
The reason for the sinking of the landing ship is not yet clear, but Ukraine’s Odessa regional military government spokesman Serchy Blachuk said on May 8 that an amphibious ship and two Russian Raptor-class patrol boats were attacked by the Ukrainian side. of destruction. .
On May 12, satellite imagery showed that the Serna-class landing ship sank near the dock on Zmini Island next to a barge carrying a large crane. picture: Maxar.
The Russian Defense Ministry and the Ukrainian military have not commented on the images.
Odessa regional military government spokesman Blachuk also announced on social media on May 12 that the Russian navy attacked the Russian supply ship “Vsevolod Bobrov” near Zmini Island, causing damage to the ship and had to ” Towed to the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula”.
Zmini Island covers an area of about 17 hectares and is located on the shore of the Black Sea, about 35 kilometers from the coast of Odessa. Before the war, the Ukrainian border guards stationed about 100 border guards to protect the island.
After Russia launched the special military operation “demilitarization and defascization of Ukraine” on February 24, it immediately sent warships close to Zmini Island to ask its Wehrmacht to surrender, and then surrendered and took control of the entire island.
The location of Zmini Island. Graphics: Washington post.
The Ukrainian military has repeatedly announced an ambush against Russian troops stationed on the island with a Bayraktar TB2 drone, destroying at least one Serna-class light landing craft and a Tor-M2 short-range air defense system.
Wu Ying (according to Reuters)
