Attacks by naval drones and missile strikes on Russian Navy facilities in the Black Sea and near Crimea Sea and near Crimea helped to force enemy ships out of the Sevastopol Bay. Ukraine has established a 200-mile security zone in the Black Sea. Ukraine has created a 200-mile security zone in the Black Sea. This was reported to The New York Times by a soldier of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine with the call sign "Thirteenth", UNN reports.
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Over the past year, naval drones, along with missile strikes, have damaged and sunk dozens of Russian ships. This forced Russia to redeploy ships from Sevastopol Bay, the home port of one of Moscow's four fleets. Drones helped clear the shipping channel for grain exports, a critical commodity for the Ukrainian economy.
"No one has the experience of using maritime drones like us. we do. There are no instructors or textbooks. We are writing these books now," said Thirteen.
The last successful strike by naval drones took place on November 10, when Ukraine attacked two Russian landing ships moored in the Crimean Bay, sinking both of them.
Russia responded with electronic jamming, as well as the placement of boom barriers at the mouths of the bays, installing machine guns on its warships and sailing out of range of drones. "With each new operation we learn, and they learn," Thirteen said.
Ukrainian naval drones, according to the Thirteenth, which helped to hit the Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship Sergei Kotov, have cleared a strip about 200 miles from the Ukrainian coast.
"It is possible to push them back back. The domination of in the Black Sea is over," the soldier summarized.