Ukraine unsuccessfully attacked the Russian ship "Priazovye" with drone boats in the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. During the attack, reconnaissance in the air was carried out by the US strategic UAV Global Hawk, the body noted.
"Today, at about 01:30 Moscow time, the armed forces of Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the Priazovye ship of the Black Sea Fleet, which is performing the tasks of monitoring the situation and ensuring security along the routes of the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines to the south, with six sea-going unmanned boats in the eastern part of the Black Sea. In the course of repulsing the attack, all the boats were destroyed by fire from the standard armament of the Russian ship, 300 kilometers southeast of Sevastopol," the ministry said.
It specified that "there were no casualties, the ship was not damaged."
"In this period, as in the course of previous similar attacks, the strategic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle RQ-4B Global Hawk of the US Air Force conducted reconnaissance in the airspace of the central part of the Black Sea," the Defense Ministry stressed.
The ship "Priazovye" of the Black Sea Fleet continues to fulfill its tasks, the department added.
On 7 June, Russia's Ministry of Defense declared that Ukrainian saboteurs had blown up the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline, which plays a key role in the so-called Black Sea grain deal.