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Ukraine has pummeled another Russian Navy warship, with pictures showing smoke billowing from one of the Black Sea Fleet vessels.<\/p>\n
An explosion rocked Sevastopol Bay on October 13 when the Russian Buyan missile carrier was attacked in Crimea.<\/p>\n
The Buyan-M-class small missile ship, known to carry Russia\u2019s Kalibr missiles, was hit according to the \u201cKrymsky veter\u201d Telegram channel.<\/p>\n
Residents in the city center reported hearing a \u201cmuffled explosion,\u201d leading to car alarms being triggered.<\/p>\n
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Ukrainian Pravda sources in the Security Service of Ukraine have not disclosed much detail on the attacks, but said the vessel was hit by Sea Baby drones with experimental weapons.<\/p>\n
One organiser said: \u201cAfter the first explosion, Russian minesweepers and divers were unable to detect our know-how.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday, the Alrosa submarine was lucky and managed to escape our inventions so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
The attack comes two days after Russia\u2019s Pavel Derzhavin was blown up by the SSU and Ukrainian Navy in similar circumstances.<\/p>\n
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Kyiv has pushed to retake Crimea since the war began in February 2022, after the region was annexed by Russia in 2014.<\/p>\n
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Ukraine\u2019s gains from their southern counter-offensive could allow them to push into Crimea last month.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a recent meeting of French ambassadors in Paris, Mr Kuleba said: “Having entrenched on its [Robotyne’s] flanks, we are opening the way to Tokmak and, eventually, Melitopol and the administrative border with Crimea.”<\/p>\n
Kuleba stressed Ukraine’s counter-offensive, which was launched in early June, was continuing at the time, but admitted it was an “extremely difficult” task.<\/p>\n
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