Over the past 72 hours, Ukrainian naval drones have struck two ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet near the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, a SBU source told local news agency Ukrinform on Friday. of Ukraine (SBU), EFE and Agerpres report.

According to the quoted source, the affected ships are the Buyan-class missile carrier, which was allegedly shot down by an unmanned naval ship on Friday morning, and the Pavlo Derzhavin patrol ship, which was damaged on Wednesday by another designed ship. maritime drone of Ukraine.

A source in the Ukrainian special services warned that Russia will suffer new attacks of this type if it does not withdraw its ships from Ukrainian territorial waters.

In recent days, Kyiv announced the withdrawal of the largest part of the Russian fleet to the eastern coast of the Black Sea, which would have been forced to withdraw part of its ships from the coast of Crimea against the background of increased strikes by drones and missiles from Ukraine.

According to several Ukrainian leaders, these actions allowed Ukraine to open a corridor to its ports in the Odesa region for civilian vessels to resume Ukrainian exports through the Black Sea.