The Black Sea Fleet Ship "escaped" from Ukrainian drones and crashed into a tanker - Defense Express (Photo)

The Telegram-channel CCC-OGPU has published a ship traffic scheme at the time of the incident, a photo of the damaged body and a report of the captain of the 1st rank of Oleg Sardin, which describes in detail the circumstances of the collision. According to these data, at 3:59 the crew was ordered to dramatically change the course after detection of unmanned aerial vehicles in the air.

The maneuver was unsuccessful: in six minutes, at 4:05, "High Volochek" collided with a left side with a civilian tanker "Nazan". In official documents, the incident was classified as "a ship -related accident", but actual damage was significant. The released photos show the deformation of the housing and structures of the vessel, which indicates the seriousness of the situation, contrary to the official statements of Moscow.

It is worth noting that at the same hours the Russian Defense Ministry reported a massive coating of Ukrainian drones. According to them, on the night of August 6 to August 7, 31 drone over the Azov Sea was allegedly shot down and 11 more - over the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea. These figures indicate that the incident with the "High Volochk" occurred against the background of active attacks of Ukrainian unmanned forces in the region.

It should be reminded that during the appearance of unknown drones above Denmark near its shores was a Russian warship "Alexander Shabalin" with a disabled AIS tracking system. The ship was not displayed in open databases and went unnoticed. Focus also wrote that in September, GUR special forces successfully struck the ship of the MPSV07 Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation near Novorossiysk. It is known that its value is about $ 60 million, and in total Russia has 4 such vessels.