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The Armed Forces struck the "supernal" ship "Askold" in Crimea: Photos of damage appeared

Photos appeared on which the damage to the Russian ship "Askold" was recorded after it was hit by the winged rocket Storm Shadow/Scalp EG on November 4. The Stratkoom confirmed the lesion. The Ukrainian military attacked the Russian ship "Askold" with the help of the winged rocket Storm Shadow/Scalp EG in the temporary occupied city of Kerch in Crimea. Journalist Andriy Tsaplienko posted a photo of the consequences of the blow in Telegram.

"Askold rocket ship" after a recent hit of the Ukrainian winged Scalp-EG rocket, "said Andrei Tsaplienko. The photos were also posted by journalist Yuri Butusov on Telegram. He noted that the side of the vessel was broken. The damage was also damaged by the nasal of the ship and the installation of the vertical start of the Caliber-NK missiles. "Interestingly, on November 27, an official transfer and assignment of the Askold ship was scheduled for the Navy.

The Stratcom of the Armed Forces confirmed the lesions of the Russian rocket car "Askold". "Confirmed. The Russian Askold rocket launcher is the most recent ship of the Karakurt Project with Stealth technology as a result of the damage to the Armed Forces of Maritime and port infrastructure of the Falling plant in temporarily occupied Crimea," the statement said. The center emphasized that the ship has received significant injuries, it may not be repaired.

According to the captain of the 1st rank of the Navy of the reserve of Andriy Ryzhenko, the Russian ship "Askold" is a small rocket ship of 22800 "Karakurt" type. It can carry up to 8 caliber missiles. On November 4, in the temporarily occupied city of Kerch in Crimea, the sounds of explosions were heard at the shipyard.

On November 5, the Commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk confirmed that the Ukrainian military struck in Kerch one of the latest Russian ships, the carrier of the winged missiles "Caliber"-"Askold". According to the Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat, the Russian ship did not even participate in swimming, he was testing. In addition, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also confirmed damage to the ship.

We will remind, on November 6 the spokesman of the Navy of the Armed Forces Dmitry Pletenchuk reported that the affected ship "Askold" can be considered a "supernova" ship of the series "Karakurt", since it was not yet taken into the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. According to him, the Russian ship was equipped with Stealth technology and had eight mines to launch missiles. In addition, its peculiarity was the presence of a marine type "shezir-C1"-a system of aircraft of a ship.