"It really is the biggest attack on Sevastopol since the beginning of the war," Andriy Ryzhenko, a retired Ukrainian navy captain, told Reuters. The damaged vessels were undergoing repairs in Sevastopol, Russia said, adding they "will be fully restored and continue combat service in their fleets." However, Ukrainian military intelligence spokesperson, Andriy Yusov, said it was "highly likely" Russia's vessels "are beyond repair."
Russia scrambles troops into battle as Ukraine gains ground: UK.Russia may suffer "reverberating impacts" after shipyard strike: ISW.Taking out one Kilo-class Russian submarine in Crimea "won't materially affect Russia's ability to launch cruise missile attacks from the Black Sea," according to Frederik Mertens, a strategic analyst with the Hague Center for Security Studies. Moscow has used Crimea to launch attacks on Ukrainian territory throughout the war, including cruise missile strikes. Kyiv has vowed to reclaim the territory to the south of mainland Ukraine, and has upped attacks on Russia's bases and key bridges connecting the peninsula to Russia in recent months. Ukraine has increasingly targeted Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, which Moscow has controlled since it annexed the peninsula in 2014. The missile strikes damaged Moscow's Rostov-on-Don submarine-thought to be the first Russian submarine hit during the war-and the Minsk landing ship at the Ordzhonikidze shipyard, Ukraine's military intelligence agency told Ukrainska Pravda.
Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Air Force, said in a post to social media that he wanted to thank Ukraine's pilots "for excellent combat work." The missiles, which Ukraine can launch from its combat aircraft, have a range of more than 150 miles, and France has also sent its version of the Storm Shadow. Ukraine used British-supplied Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles in the attack, Britain's Sky News reported, citing a Western and Ukrainian source. This before image shows the Sevastopol base before Ukraine's strike, which marked one of the most significant assaults on Russia's Black Sea fleet in the more than 18 months of all-out war.
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