Daily Sabah/Agence France-Presse
May 2, 2022

Ukraine reports destroying Russian ships in Black Sea

Kyiv reported on Monday that its Bayraktar TB-2 drones sank two Russian patrol boats near Snake Island in the Black Sea….

“Two Russian Raptor boats were destroyed at dawn today near Snake Island,” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said in a statement distributed on social media.

The ministry also released grainy black and white aerial footage showing an explosion on a small military vessel.

“The Bayraktars are working,” Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the commander in chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was cited as saying in the statement, referring to the Turkish-made military drones.

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According to British intelligence sources, Russia operates around 20 warships in the Black Sea, where the balance of power is now static since Turkey blocks any access by vessels belonging to a warring party under the Montreux Convention.