A naval drone targeting the Russian base in Sevastopol was launched from a vessel moving through the grain corridor, Russia says FILE PHOTO. © Sputnik / Konstantin Mikhalchevsky
Those behind a major drone attack on the Russian naval base in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol made active use of a UN-brokered Black Sea grain corridor, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement after studying the wreckage of the unmanned combat vehicles.
The ministry’s specialists retrieved the navigational modules of the drones destroyed by the Russian warships and naval aviation, the statement said, adding that the Canadian-made devices stored data on the vehicles’ path to their target.
Most of them were launched from the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, not far from the port city of Odessa, the Russian military said. “The naval drones were then moving within the security zone of the grain corridor before changing course and heading towards the Russian naval base in Sevastopol,” the statement said.
Navigational data from at least one naval drone shows that it was launched from a sea location within the grain corridor security zone, the ministry added. According to Russian specialists, it might have been launched from a civilian vessel chartered by Ukraine or its “western backers” to transport Ukrainian agricultural produce.
Saturday’s assault, which involved nine aerial and seven naval drones, targeted vessels of the Russian Black Sea Fleet docked in Sevastopol. It was repelled, with just one ship suffering minor damage, according to the ministry.
According to Moscow, the Russian ships that were targeted by the Ukrainian drones had been involved in providing security for the “grain corridor,” which was set up to allow exports of Ukrainian food products through the Black Sea as part of a deal negotiated in Istanbul between Moscow and Kiev with UN and Turkish mediation this summer.
The attack prompted Russia to indefinitely suspend its participation in the deal, a move that has sparked an angry reaction from the US. Russia blamed Kiev for the attack, which it claimed was “carried out under the supervision of British experts.”
Kiev has been reluctant to claim responsibility for the assault. Andrey Yermak, the head of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s office, took to Telegram to accuse Russia of “making up terrorist acts at its facilities.” On Sunday, the New York Times reported that it was Ukrainian forces that launched Saturday’s attack, citing an unnamed Ukrainian official. (RT)
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The arrogance and lies from the administration in this country just amazes me. The truth always wins in the end and their end is coming.
The truth wins on judgment day. Not before.
Matthew Bracken
@Matt_Bracken
WHAT IS GOING ON ABOVE THE BLACK SEA?
Globo-Homo is angling for a new “Gulf of Tonkin Incident,” IMHO.
When a “neutral” ISR platform shares targeting data with a belligerent, the ISR platform loses its neutral status and becomes a co-belligerent.
This is what is happening above the Black Sea: we are trying to goad Russia into shooting down a US or NATO manned or unmanned ISR platform over international waters. This will be used as an excuse to escalate our proxy war against Russia. To make the intent crystal clear, a Global Hawk was up and orbiting during the Sevastopol coordinated air and sea drone attacks.
Compare this sequence of events to….
“The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 50 Years Ago”
One real and one phantom firefight embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War.
https://www.history.com/news/the-gulf-of-tonkin-incident-50-years-ago
Russia needs to just shoot the US drones down. They can just deny responsibility, or blame someone else, just like the US always does.
Say it was the US pulling a false flag. The US never tires of that shtick.
What is the worst that could happen, the West sanctions them? 🙂
Come on Putin, shoot one down. Then another. And keep doing it.
Bullies keep bullying until they get a bloody nose. The US is all pants and no dick when confronting a near military equal. They only are brave when they are beating up the little guy.
The US FEDGOV is at war with the American people, who pay it tribute to minimize the boot on their necks.
Now the FEDGOV is trying to use the Five Eyes consortium to pull all of Western Civilization into a Nuclear World War with Russia and China.
This can’t end well for regular serfs…hope y’all have your bolt holes ready!!!
The feral hogs we hate so much here in Texas may well be our salvation when food can no longer be bought.
The Russians are weak, stupid and don’t know what they doing…reeeeee . Paul Craigtard Roberts
STFU, idiot.. Colonel Douglas Macgregor
October 30 — The situation in Ukraine is ugly.
Douglas Macgregor
United States and worldwide Geopolitics analysis.
Russia Ukraine conflict latest news update with Colonel Douglas Macgregor
https://youtu.be/4CZ9X9ORC6c
everytime i hear macgregor i think to myself,why don’t we have leaders like him in the congress?
russia also blamed the UK for the pipe line explosion.