SIG "tired" from the explosion: as a sea drone was neutralized by one of the most powerful tankers of the Russian Federation
The Telegram-channels appeared an audio recording of a damaged tanker, which was told that the ship could not move on its own and about the flooding of the machine compartment. The SIG crew did not know the cause of the explosion, but suggested that it was an excess drone. The occupation authorities of Crimea called on the locals not to pusage the situation and said that explosions were not related to the Crimean bridge.
Russian propagandists wrote that three sea drones were destroyed in the Kerch Strait. Rozomorrichflot noted that before the attack, the tanker was on the southern approach to the Kerch Strait. Now the ship was allegedly afloat, and the crew conducted a "fight against the flow of water. " Defense Express analysts are called the lesion of the sea drone-Kamikadze tanker SIG filigree blow.
Overwater UAVs have advantages over anti -ship missiles, as the operator can perform them along the board, accurately identify the ship and direct them in the machine compartment. The anti -ship rocket would not be able to accurately identify the goals. Its radar head of homing would choose the greatest goal. Telegram-channel Baza showed a photo from the inside of the ship.
SBU Chairman Vasyl Malyuk declared "absolute logic" in the appearance of marine drones near Russian ships and the Crimean bridge. Ukraine conducts special operations in its territorial waters and all of them are quite legitimate, he emphasized. UNIAN sources in the SBU told about the classic special operation scenario. The excess drone delivered 450 kg of TNT and disposed of one of the most powerful oil tankers of the Russian Federation.
"The tanker was well -loaded with fuel, fireworks were visible from afar. Another successful special operation of the SBU conducted with the Navy forces in the territorial waters of Ukraine. As they say," Neg *** and sastat, "the interlocutor emphasized. One of the most powerful oil tankers. 2014. It belonged to the shipping company Transperochart and his port of registration-St. Petersburg. Tanker can carry almost 5 thousand tons of fuel.
Moscow ordered the tank fuel to be delivered from Crimea to Syria, the United States has made sanctions against the vessel. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for the transportation of military goods and is not a civil vessel. By the time of attack by sea drone, the ship came from Turkey. On board there were 11 crew members, a few got the glow from fragments Olenegorsky Gornyak "In the Novorossiysk Bay. The ship suffered serious damage.