called her fleet invincible, but today it suffered another loss. we will discuss how this will affect the war. drones of the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense of ukraine sank the large russian amphibious assault ship caesar kunikov in the black sea this morning. the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine stated that at the time of the attack, the ship was in the territorial waters of ukraine near alupka. gur published a video of the destruction of the ship on the footage. you can see the silhouette of the ship and a bright explosion, and then a fire. intelligence reported that there would be an attack were hit by magur v5 drones, and the ship received holes on the left side and sank. the russian ministry of defense did not comment on this attack, but at the same time, this morning, the agency reported that six drones were shot down over the black sea. the nature and extent of the damage to the ship is not known for sure, nor is it known whether the crew survived. by the way, on the website of the black sea fleet, it is reported that the crew of the ship is people, what is generally known

about the russian ship caesar kunikov, we have prepared a reference. here is this burning one the ship, not far from alupka, was seen by local residents on the morning of february 14, the crimean veter telegram channel reported about it. there they noted that the locals did not hear the sounds of the rockets, but a fire broke out on the ship. after that , the telegram channel published a video showing how rescue boats arrived at the scene, and local people saw rotorcraft in the sky. meanwhile, the main intelligence directorate of ukraine announced the destruction of the magur b5, a large amphibious ship of the russian black sea fleet, by attack naval drones federations, caesar kunikov. according to gur , as a result of the impact, the ship received critical holes on the left side and began to sink. initially, the intelligence agency states that the ship was loaded during the sinking. this is explained by witnesses in gur. the intercepted

radio conversation of the russian military from the ship's inspection site, the words of the alleged rotorcraft pilots can be heard in the published excerpt, debris and an oily stain remained. the ship itself was one of the large amphibious ships of project 775, a series of ships that the soviet union was building for its... fleet in of poland at the shipyard in gdiansk, its length is 112.5 m, width 15 m, the crew consists of 87 people. the ship was designed for the landing of marine landings on an unequipped coast, the transfer of troops and cargo by sea, and was also capable of transporting various types of armored vehicles, including tanks, and unloading them directly on a shore bridgehead during an amphibious operation. oleksandr kovalenko, military and political columnist of the information group "sprovit". noted that

russian forces have recently used such ships mainly as transport for logistics purposes chains of his troops. therefore, the question is, when what happened to the central committee, it was loaded and i wonder what it was, whether it was empty, but even if it was empty, it is still wonderful, because in russia no shipyard can build or even fully repair these ships. in addition to the war with ukraine, the russian federation used cesarkunikov, also during. wars with georgia and syria. the ship got its name in honor of the soviet officer, commander of the amphibious detachment caesar kunikov. he was killed also on february 14, but 81 years ago, i.e in 1943. well, maybe it's bad luck, not every caesar manages to die twice in one day. it is interesting that caesar kunikov was previously damaged by ukrainian forces. in march 2022, he, as well as two other large landings. the ships saratov and

novocherkask, which, by the way, were also destroyed by ukraine, were in occupied berdyansk. then the armed forces attacked them, as a result of which the saratov ship was destroyed, and the other two were damaged. during the attack, the crew of the ships also knew of injuries, for example, a month after that in in the occupied crimea, the commander of caesar kunyukov, oleksandr chirva, was buried. before the full-scale invasion, caesar kunikov also drew attention to himself. for example, in 2015, one of the bloggers monitoring the movement of russian ships in the black sea straits photographed caesar kunikov. the photo shows one of the soldiers standing on the deck, holding a portable anti-aircraft missile system in his hands towards istanbul. at that time, the photo spread on the internet and caused outrage in turkey, the country's authorities even summoned the russian the ambassador anastasia potapenko, radio liberty.

andrii yusov, a representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine , told svoboda live that ammunition, namely missile weapons, was on board the caesar kunikov ship. according to him, most of the unmanned boats used during the special operation hit the target, about this and other details of the special operation, he told us in an exclusive comment, i suggest you listen: eh, what details of the special operation can you tell now and how many drones were used, for example, or how long was the preparation for it? preparation for such an operation is always a long and thorough process, and all stages have been completed, this is the operation of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense. special unit group 13 in cooperation with all components of the security and defense forces, certainly with the naval forces, proper observation, reconnaissance, data collection, information, planning, development of routes, and detailed development, the actual

execution of the operation itself, and of course filigree work of marine drone operators, magura v5 marine drones. have once again proven themselves very well, we will not reveal the data, we can say that in terms of quantity, these are approximately comparable indicators with the quantity released during the defeat and destruction of the missile ship, the ivantsov missile boat, and most of the drones hit the target, a direct hit , despite the fact that the ship was on combat duty, that is, it was ready for the alleged na... tried to resist, but at the moment we see that the occupiers cannot effectively deal with such ukrainian operations. what exactly was this ship doing near alupka? transports not only personnel, it is used to transport both

forces and means. in this case , there was ammunition on board, most likely missile weapons, that is, he was transporting these missile weapons, so... what are the possible new data on the fate of the crew? well, according to preliminary information, most of the crew could not be saved, and we can see that both the detonation and the flooding process were quite intense and fast. however, it is possible that someone could be saved, but i think most of the crews are gone. how many people in total could be on board, maybe there are numbers from to? the information and statistics are now being clarified there. it is all known, simply during the performance of various tasks, the crew may be of different composition, and on each shift differently, it is clear that we are talking about dozens of people, but the exact figure must be clarified. and the destruction of such a ship, what does it give for ukraine in terms of war? this is very serious

news, in fact, the destruction of another large landing ship, and one of the key elements of this type of ships and weapons. in fact, in the near future , it puts an end to realistic attempts and planning of large-scale amphibious operations against the russians and against ukraine. these ships have already been used more recently, to a greater extent, to transport a force of means to supply the group, not to carry out amphibious operations, but now this kind of planning will be very problematic, it will take a long time to restore such a ship. very expensive and logistically, it is extremely problematic for the aggressor, that's why really good news, what can you say at all, will these transactions continue? well, there will definitely be some and others, combined, we see that ukraine is successfully

fighting in the black sea, although the black sea fleet is such a crown in this diamond in the crown of russian propaganda. pride has always been there, but today, during a full-scale invasion, more than 20% of the fleet of the black sea fleet has already been destroyed. ukraine essentially moved the russian black sea fleet away from part of ours water area, forces to relocate from the temporarily occupied crimea. and this process will continue, and accordingly there will be operations on land, on water, and in the sky. to continue so, caesar kunikov, one of the seven large amphibious ships that were part of the black sea fleet at the beginning of the war in ukraine. if he sank as a result of the current attack, then four large landing ships remained afloat. two, let me remind you,

were damaged by previous attacks of the armed forces. novocherkassk was attacked in feodosia at the end of december of that year, and saratov sank in the port of berdyansk on march 22. just during the war in ukraine, the russian black sea... fleet lost at least a fifth of its fleet, at least this is how the german edition of bilt calculated, including the flagship of the missile fleet, the missile cruiser moskva, as military columnist julian ryobki writes, in the spring of 22 the second fleet russia had more than 70 ships, and russian propaganda called this fleet invincible, but after the destruction of the cruiser moskva, the fleet left the shores of ukraine forever. in total , since the beginning of the russian invasion of 13 ships were destroyed on the open sea and in the docks, as well as the headquarters building of the black sea fleet in occupied sevastopol. all today, against the background of the news about the defeat of the russian ship caesar kunikov , nato secretary general jen stoltenberg called ukraine's success in the black sea a great achievement.

the ukrainians managed to inflict heavy losses on the russian black sea fleet, they managed to push the russian fleet out of the western part of the black sea, and this is a great achievement and a great victory for the ukrainians. volodymyr zablotskyi has already joined our broadcast. naval expert, reviewer of the defense express military portal. good evening. good evening, thank you for the invitation. from your point of view, what happened today with the ship at... the fact is that what sank is beyond recovery because there are great depths, firstly, secondly, it has received such damage that it is not compatible with life, in general, it capsized before it sank, and also exploded, you see, it's like, uh, recovery on... falls, i understand, okay, then the question is how much is a tangible loss for black sea fleet of russia?

let's count, this is a large amphibious ship, this is 10 tanks or an infantry battalion, with a full list of weapons from bc, which it can land on an unequipped coast, at the beginning of the war, such ships, such and generally large landing ships of three projects, let me remind her. .. there were six or seven on the black sea, literally the day before, on the eve of the invasion , six ships arrived from the baltic and the northern fleet, they became 13, after that. this armada was supposed to land an amphibious assault on the coast near odessa and cut us off finally from the black sea. it was part of the operation, with, let's say, pincers, the right hand was supposed to act dry. the left hand of the attacker was supposed to act by sea, this was the left hand that

brazenly lined up on the raid, in the sight of odessa, so that it could be seen, and scared us from the first days that here we are here we are going to land now, but it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen like that , as expected, and the landing did not take place, because the enemy was defeated on land, bridges were blown up near voznesensk and our troops... repulsed the enemy, and accordingly the landing held back a little, because you can't land a landing party for millions, on a city of a millionaire, well, it was death for him, then, then, then they continued to scare, hoping that we would strike again, and we would strike once more, but then the kerysr moscow was sunk, then others followed. and the landing has not taken place and will never take place, why?

because, first of all, the land component did not form, as they say, and the marines were thrown into battle and almost all of them were already destroyed, let me remind you, the marines, personnel, which were prepared for landing, which has skills , which has special equipment, it was destroyed and replaced, well, by a young man who doesn't... can't do anything, doesn't know anything, first of all, and secondly, there were fewer ships, let's remember that in the 22nd year, out of 13 ships , as many as 3 were in berdyansk at the time of the missile attack, when the point y hit saratov, it is not the newest, it is of the rhinoceros type , an amphibious ship from the 60s, well, it was unloaded, in it, in it in there was ammunition and fuel in the holds, er, this ship exploded, along with... two ships standing next to each other caught fire, this this same caesar kunikov and novocherkasskyi

, these names do not remind you of anything, and here are these two who survived, they finished the mooring and fled from berdyansk on fire, there is a video like this, well, very epic, let’s say so, and left with the killed and with the wounded on board went to kerch and sevastopol. to be repaired, for now this solitaire is finished from that trio, boratov then died in cherkassk. later, and now caesar kunikov, that is, the berdian card, well, let’s say, was finally lost by the enemy, uh, then, there was an attack on olenihorsky gornyak, this the same one of the 775th project of the polish construction of the vdk, near novorossiysk, then there was novocherkassk, and there was also minsk from the baltic

fleet, that is, all three fleets suffered defeats, suffered losses and... they know more, i think that soon there will be more others, volodya, but can you clarify, you have literally laid out the conditions in which the russian fleet is on the shelves, but it seems that they should have already been trained that ukrainian boats are waiting for them in the black sea, and what was he doing near alupka here is this caesar kunikov, today, what tasks could he perform there, well, i'll add to that, the task... they don't have much left, only logistics, there will be no amphibious assault, no marines, they are used as logistics ships, they provide ammunition, well, the appropriate parts, uh, maybe even there is such an assumption that he was supposed to deliver it from novorossiysk to cape chaud, where

drones, shaheds fly to ukraine, and it to the mainland. this very ship was supposed to deliver them there, and perhaps it was so, because when it capsized, struck by our unmanned boats, the explosion was very strong, and it could be compared with the explosion of the same novocherkassk in the port of feodosiya, when it exploded, everything flew around and sank another ship that was standing nearby, well somehow, and ee with... reduction by one more a unit means a reduction in the enemy's logistics capabilities , er, if you count the war-capable ones there, it seems that he has five ships left, of which one is under repair, one is the latest, er, petor margunov is stationed in novorossiysk, he is being hidden, because if his , he is hated somewhere, then things will be very bad, well, well

these principles, these calculations, these calculations hurt, i quoted earlier about the fact that... russia lost a fifth part of the fleet, as i understand it, they answer, do you agree with them? yes, that's all, everything is visible, that's right, there is such intelligence, it's called osint, that is, open sources intelligence, that is, intelligence based on open sources, it analyzes all possible available sources and draws conclusions, 80 or even 90% of the intelligence of the special services is obtained precisely from open sources. you can't hide anything here, there was a ship and it 's gone, well, count how many there were, how much has become, that's the difference, it's losses , you can't hide it anywhere, it's such a thing, there is some critical limit, let's say for the russian fleet, when a certain number of ships will be impossible to restore or will sink, when it will no longer be possible to carry out

any operations at all at sea, well, this is such a rhetorical question, we thought that they had some kind of limit when... they are destroyed there by land, but they climb and climb, you see, at the moment we see a shot of a small missile ship in itself, which is one of those who were damaged last year, which is under repair, half of its engines do not work, and there is a lack of spare parts, well, they were manufactured in mykolaiv, now for known reasons we will not manufacture and supply them, but there are, by the way, there are, by the way, how about russia? establish and restore supplies at the expense of some other countries or allies? no, no, they have a problem, it’s a lack of logistics, a lack of production, they lack technology even now, they can do something, well, let’s say, some breakthrough invention, launch it in syria, that’s already a problem, that’s already

it's difficult for them, amphibious ships, they didn't build them themselves for a long time, now they started in ... in 2000 they built two types, here is pyotr morgunov, who is standing here, and another one is standing in the north, and they turned out to be unsuccessful, syria was stopped in kaliningrad to build, now they are redoing the project to build some more, but they build for a long time, they build poorly, and perhaps that is why, by the way, by the way, that is also why this potor morgunov is not used, because he is not able to do anything, he is like the control ship, as well as possible as a staff ship for this amphibious assault ship groups that shrink like that shagreen skin constantly, and returning to this ship it. kunikov, what happened to the landing party, the landing party, because, for example, the intelligence representative andriy yusov says that most of the people died, but today the bbc publication wrote that they managed

to talk to a former sailor who served on this ship, and he said that after all the crew managed to escape while the side was sinking, somehow they escaped, do you have any idea what happens to the crew under those circumstances, well he did not have a landing party on board, he was on... let's say, on a logistical mission, that is, he was carrying some kind of cargo, maybe martyrs, maybe some other ammunition, and in addition to the crew, which is up to 80 people, depending on the configuration , there was no one there, if it was damaged and began to sink, the commander in such cases gives the command to the team to leave the ship, they left, who survived, who if... someone died there, he stayed inside, and the rest, well , who made it, and, but it was at night, pay attention to this, and this was not far from the coast, then

helicopters were called there, they were rescuing someone there, or looking for boats, well, we will find out, there is no information yet, and if we talk about losses not only of ships, but in principle losses of the fleet, human losses, do you have an idea how many russia lost, because i understand... that restoring the human resource of the black sea fleet is also such a long and expensive task, you know, they can replenish the human resource at the expense of skivvies, they transfer people there from the caspian, if necessary, from of the baltic fleet, with other fleets, this is not a problem for them, but the problem of the platform is that we sunk, damaged, there is nothing to repair. there is no place except occupied sevastopol, well, they have no capacity, well, such factories as

zaliv and sea are also captured, this is kirchivusia, well, this is shipbuilding, let’s say, capacity, not repair, novorossiysk, there, this is the largest port of russia on the black sea and, it seems, the fourth or fifth in europe, you are a huge port 80. five berths, well, but there are no such capacities, because repairing warships is one thing, and repairing suna civilians, it's completely different, it's different standards, different materials, different specialists, and in general it's somehow land, let's put it this way, well , you can't, well, the volonyhorsk miner who was damaged last year, we saw how it was, his they brought the novorossiysk to the dock, set it up, saved it, the side, let's say, more or less closed it with a plaster, filled it with something, but still

dragged it to sevastopol to be repaired there, but minsk was already being repaired there, we saw what happened to it , the same fate can await this ship, but this is not the main thing, the fact is that it cannot move, it has no engine, the port side is damaged by the explosion, everything there is flooded, all the electronics. spoiled, and it was all produced in poland at the end of the 80s, now, accordingly , nothing like this is produced there, and if, even if it were produced, the poles would hardly sell such things to the russians. thank you very much for, thank you very much for your comment. volodymyr zablotskyi, a naval expert, columnist for the defense express military portal , was on radio liberty. thank you. well, then we... we will show the material about how the drones of the air defense group are shot down in the kyiv region. rfe/rl was able to communicate with one of the mobile fire groups of the separate presidential brigade,

the shahed hunter service, as the fighters of the mobile fire groups are also called, after the alarm command, they need 15 minutes to reach the position and be in full readiness to destroy aerial aerial targets . they are armed with machine guns and assault rifles. my colleague iryna sysak will tell you more in the next article. first crew readiness one perform. the command is given, to which point, where to leave, if a drone or an aerial target falls into the space of our communication, we already know informatively where and where it is flying, it can be both day and night, and even blowing up from sleep is simple. so they got up, pulled up the shields, put on armor, a helmet , automatic weapons, that’s all, as the driver must be the very first one near the car in order to warm them up, prepare them for departure, the guys fight right away

... then there are tablets, automatic weapons, let’s load and immediately leave. we work with dshkm 12.7, this is a large-caliber tar machine gun, popularly called dashka, is an automatic weapon designed to shoot down air targets and lightly armored targets, as well as enemy manpower and equipment. also, from a kalashnikov assault rifle, someone who is not involved with the dshk, of course, works with... a kalashnikov assault rifle, too, it turns out to be pretty good to shoot down with it, if it is already within a zone of up to 5 km, this is already the work of the dshk, machine guns, when it flies up to distances of about a kilometer or less, this is already a small weapon, the sky it shone, of course, on november 24-25, when

there was a massive attack. our mobile groups managed to shoot down six shaheeds, maybe even a little more, i won’t say for sure, you will understand , there will be one fire group that opens fire, and here you will not immediately understand who will shoot it down, it is from night to morning, somewhere after 7- 8 hours , this is a very cool result, but then they also gave us a good time, they flew from different directions, what was in our area of ​​responsibility, we tried to destroy everything as much as possible, and i think we accomplished our task excellent, somewhere above us, a cellar, he , well, it is very rare to get home, because no matter what, we have a combat order,

as i said... we have to be in position for 12 minutes, i will call the family every day i miss her all the time, i have a little son , he will be three years old soon, on march 3, i hope that i will go home for his birthday, i miss her, it’s true, the woman misses, she is very worried, but i reassure her, i say, everything is fine, my son is also talking about the phone, already learned, chatters like that, and daddy kid, i think i'm doing what's needed, i like what i do, i... what the guys are doing, i'm satisfied, let's just say that there are other guys who do this thing, of course, we feel supported, a lot of people even see us on the street, they support who and what , who how, it is all given in signs, of course we are as focused as possible on our work and try to do it the truth.

the prosecutor general's office reported that law enforcement officers have begun investigating obstruction of the professional activities of journalists in the case of monitoring the editorial staff of the bigusinfo project, it is called, well not even a month has passed, because, if no joke, then really almost a month ago, on january 14 , bigusinfo journalists reported that they had been following the project team for several months in a row, listening to their phones. and filmed their movements. this incident gained publicity not only in ukraine, but also abroad. they also mentioned the president. for example, it is known that the well-known british newspaper financial times published an article under the headline: "ukrainian media became the target of zelenskyi's information army." the publication stated that pressure, surveillance and physical threats to journalists cast a shadow on the ability of the ukrainian president to protect freedom of speech. later, investigative journalists found out that not everyone was tracked down, the employees of the security service

of ukraine were in the heat of the moment. dozens of employees of the department for the protection of national statehood hunted journalists on the territory of the suburban complex and listened to their phones. a few days before that, it became known that the head of this department, roman semenchenko, was fired, but the main issue has not been resolved to this day. who is the customer? the answer should be given by the sbi. the state bureau of investigation carries out pre-trial investigation in this case, although the case was previously handled by the security service. there, however, they were investigating the illegal acquisition and use of special means of surveillance, not the fact. obstructing the activities of journalists , well, these are such subtleties, nevertheless , well, on february 6, the prosecutor general's office reported that the case was transferred to the sbi, since law enforcement officers are probably involved in the crime, what results can be expected from the investigation, or are they interested in identifying not only the perpetrators in the sbi and customers, and how much time it takes, after all, how the investigation progresses, we addressed all these questions to the sbi, but they refused to comment there for the time being, explaining it by the fact that the investigation is ongoing and there is currently

nothing to report about... meanwhile, biguzinfo journalists reported.