Raptor patrol boats can carry as much as three crew and 20 personnel.
Kyiv:
Kyiv stated Monday that its drones sank two Russian patrol boats close to the Black Sea’s Snake Island the place Ukrainian troopers rebuffed Moscow’s calls for to give up at first of its invasion.
“Two Russian Raptor boats had been destroyed at daybreak at this time close to Snake Island,” Ukraine’s defence ministry stated in a press release distributed on social media.
The defence ministry additionally launched grainy black and white ariel footage displaying an explosion on a small army vessel.
????Головнокомандувач ЗС України генерал Валерій Залужний:
Сьогодні на світанку біля острова Зміїний було знищено два російські катери типу Раптор.
Працює #Байрактар.
Разом до Перемоги!???????? pic.twitter.com/3wxlwjDtdx— Defence of Ukraine (@DefenceU) May 2, 2022
“The Bayraktars are working,” Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the commander in chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was cited as saying within the assertion, referring to Turkish-made army drones.
Raptor patrol boats can carry as much as three crew and 20 personnel. They’re normally equiped with machine weapons and utilized in reconnaissance or touchdown operations.
Snake Island turned an emblem of Ukrainian resistance after a radio change went viral wherein Ukrainian troopers rebuffed calls for from crew of a Russian warship to give up.
The Russian ship concerned, the Moskva, sank within the Black Sea in mid-April following what Moscow stated was an explosion on board. Ukraine stated it had hit the warship with missiles.
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