Serpukhov, the Russian tiny missile ship, was drastically harmed by a fireplace on Sunday in the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, in accordance to an nameless Ukrainian security source cited by RBC Ukraine on Monday.

Newsweek has not been in a position to corroborate the report independently.

The Buyan-M class corvette reportedly incorporates stealth know-how and has a vertical launching method for either Kalibr or Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles.

A crew member stands on the deck of the Russian Navy’s Buyan-course missile corvette Serpukhov for the duration of the Worldwide Maritime Defence Demonstrate in Saint Petersburg on June 28, 2017. On April 8, 2024, Ukrainian media claimed…


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In September 2023 the Russian condition media reported that Serpukhov done a productive launch of a cruise Kalibr missile in the White Sea, productively hitting a a “coastal focus on.”

In March, Russian and Ukrainian media described that yet another vessel, Kapitan Lobanov, sank in the vicinity of the city of Pionersky in the very same region of the Baltic Sea, which has been described as a “NATO Lake” adhering to the expansion of the alliance in reaction to Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine.

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