Felix Menkov, the commander of the Crimean naval base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, confirmed the information that the Saratov large landing craft (BDK) was lost during the fighting in 2022. It has been reported for post.
A year ago, it was recorded that during the fighting, the ship of the landing force BDK Saratov was lost.
“We lost the personnel of the landing ship Saratov, Novocherkassk and Caesar Kunikov,” said Menkov.
It was learned that he was in the port of Berdyansk earlier. raised On the surface of the large landing craft “Saratov”, which was damaged by the impact of a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile. The ship was sunk by the crew “to prevent the explosion of the onboard ammunition in conditions of a raging fire”.
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