Ukraine Drone Strikes Forces Russia To End Ship Repairs In Crimea

Repeated Ukrainian strikes on Russian ship repair facilities in Crimea have now forced the Kremlin to abandon maintenance and repair in those facilities. 

The Russians have workshops in Novorossisysk, but they are inferior to the ones in Crimea. JL

Svetlana Shcherbak reports in Defense Express:

The Russians have completely abandoned repairs of their military vessels in Crimea, fearing strikes from Ukrainian drones and missiles. "Using Crimea for repairs is simply no longer feasible. While there are repair facilities in Novorossiysk, they don’t compare to the ones left in occupied Ukrainian Crimea," Only one russian submarine remains in the Black Sea, tasked with guarding the Sevastopol base. 

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the russians have completely abandoned repairs of their military vessels, fearing potential strikes from the Ukrainian Defense Forces

This was announced by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy Dmytro Pletenchuk on the air of the telethon United News.

"The main facilities for the russians are still in Crimea. But we’ve demonstrated in practice that using repair bases for their Black Sea fleet is no longer possible. To repair their ships, they first need to bring them there. And now, no one will be doing that," Dmytro Pletenchuk stated.

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He recalled instances of the destruction of the Cyclone missile ship of project 22800, which was guarding the Sevastopol Bay, the strike on the Rostov-na-Donu submarine (which had already been damaged twice), and the strike on the MRK Askold in Kerch.

russian Rostov-na-Donu submarine before being hit by a Ukrainian missile / Open-source archive photo

"These incidents make it clear to the russians that using Crimea for repairs is simply no longer feasible. While there are repair facilities in Novorossiysk, they don’t compare to the ones left in occupied Ukrainian Crimea," the spokesperson added.

 

Dmitro Pletenchuk also mentioned that while the russians have the capability to build small missile ships in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, it is not currently cost-effective for them.

Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette (small missile ship in russian classification) / Open source illustrative photo

"The last two ships of the Karakurt project, Askold and Cyclone, had to leave the Azov-Black Sea region. They are now stationed in the Caspian Sea," he said.

Dmitro Pletenchuk also pointed out that only one russian submarine remains in the Black Sea, tasked with guarding the base point. The rest of the patrol operations are being carried out by enemy aviation.