The Ukrainian military released footage this week that it says shows its sea drones swarming and sinking a Russian missile corvette off the coast of Crimea.
“Warriors of the special unit ‘Group 13’ of the @DI_Ukraine destroyed the missile corvette ‘Ivanovets’ of the russian Black Sea Fleet,” Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, known as GUR, said in a statement. “As a result of a number of direct hits to the hull, the corvette was damaged, rolled to the stern, and sank. The value of the ship is approximately $60–70 million.”
The footage shows multiple instances where the unmanned drones slammed into the ship’s hull and detonated upon impact, creating giant fireballs that shot into the night sky. Toward the end of the video, the bow of the Ivanovets is pointed upward toward the sky as the ship sinks.
While the Russian military did not confirm that the ship was…
