Sinking the vessel would be another embarrassing blow for the Russian Black Sea fleet and a significant success for Ukraine 10 days before the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

It is the second time in two weeks that Ukrainian forces have said they sank a Russian vessel in the Black Sea. Last week, they published a video allegedly showing naval drones assaulting the Russian missile-armed corvette Ivanovets.

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Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, known by its Ukrainian acronym GUR, said its special operations unit ‘Group 13’ sank the Caesar Kunikov using Magura V5 sea drones on Wednesday, damaging the vessel on its left side. The same unit also struck on February 1.

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