New photos surfaced early Saturday on social media showing a Russian Raptor-class patrol boat, believed to be P-342 Yunarmeeets Baltiki, damaged “slightly” in a Russian attack Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2 drone near Snake Island in the Black Sea.
Ukrainian military spokesman in Odesa Sergey Bratchuk stated that the Raptor-class patrol boat was damaged in the fighting near the tiny Snake Island in May.
Bratchuk added that the damaged Russian ship P-342 “Yunarmeets Baltika” was evacuated to the shipyard in Sevastopol for repair.
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The Raptor-class patrol boat was hit by a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone and caught fire near Snake Island in the Black Sea as it attempted to deliver supplies to troops stationed there.
So far, Russian forces have withdrawn from Ukraine’s Snake Island, a disputed Black Sea enclave they captured shortly after the start of the war – providing a small but strategic victory for the Russians. Ukraine.
