During one of the attacks on the occupied Crimea, a senior midshipman of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Denis Nikitin was killed. UNN reports this with reference to Russian media.
Senior midshipman of the Black Sea Fleet Denis Nikitin was killed in Crimea during an attack by a Ukrainian Armed Forces kamikaze boat
According to the press service of the Black Sea Cossack District of the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Black Sea Fleet base in a coastal village in Crimea. Four surface kamikaze boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces "tried to strike at Russian landing boats, one of which was commanded by Denis Nikitin."
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Deputy prime Minister for innovation, development of education, science and technology - Minister of digital transformation Mikhail fyodorov commented on the death of nikitin.
"Two weeks ago, the authorities of the terrorist country announced that they had successfully repelled a drone attack - without damage or casualties. However, it has now turned out that 2 enemy landing boats were "tired" and the commander of one of the vessels was killed. We can say that it was heroic, because the work of the world's first fleet of marine drones will definitely go down in history. Let's keep working," wrote Fedorov.
Addendum
Ukrainian reconnaissance men conducted an operation on the night of November 10 on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea, which resulted in the destruction of small landing ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
