Video: Ukrainian drone shoots down Russian missile ship

Ukraine released a video of the destruction of the large Russian ship Serna in an air strike. In the video, a silhouette can be seen moving on the ship before it engulfed in flames. Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko later said: “Ukraine’s drone brought down the Russian missile ship.”

The attack comes just days after Russia lost two Raptor high-speed patrol boats just off Snake Island, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced.

According to the Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhniy, two ships were destroyed at dawn. “Two Russian Raptor-class ships were destroyed at dawn this morning near Zmiinyi (Snake) Island,” he wrote on Facebook.

Reportedly, the Raptor ships were used to help the Russian military evacuate.

Ukraine’s Southern Operations Command added: “The airstrikes took place in the context of Russian forces trying to conduct evacuation and replenishment of personnel.”

Russia has suffered significant equipment losses since the start of the operation on February 24, with some videos showing several Russian tanks and helicopters being destroyed in air strikes. Ukrainian driver.

President Putin is expected to send a “doomsday” warning to the West when he celebrates May 9 marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

Firmly confronting the isolation of the West since ordering a special military operation in Ukraine, Putin is expected to give a powerful speech on Red Square ahead of a military parade. squadrons, tanks, missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The 69-year-old Kremlin leader has repeatedly likened the war in Ukraine to the challenges the Soviet Union faced when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany invaded in 1941.

“The mistake of the Great Patriotic War once cost our people dearly. We will not make the same mistake a second time, we have no right to be wrong,” he said before starting the deployment. 24/2 campaign.