A third Russian boat sank in Crimea as a result of the attack
30.05.2024 - 12:41
Special agents of the Main Directorate of Intelligence could hit not two, but three boats of the occupiers in Crimea.
The pilot boat “Mechta” sank as a result of a missile attack on Crimea on the night of May 30, ASTRA Telegram channel reports with reference to sources.
For example, at the Kerch ferry crossing, fragments of a downed missile damaged the pilot boat “Dream”. The boat sank. The crew members managed to leave the ship.
On October 28, 2021, it was reported that the Azov-Black Sea basin branch of FSUE “Rosmorport” purchased the pilot boat “Mechta”. The project 1459 boat was manufactured in 1985 at the Leningrad SSZ “Pella” and became the branch’s seventh pilot vessel.
According to open data, the “Mechta” boat is (more precisely, was) a steel single-deck vessel with a ledge in the nose, a single-deck wheelhouse and with diesel engines located aft.
We will remind, on the night of May 30, the Defense Forces of Ukraine destroyed two Russian boats of the KS-701 “Tunets” type. The ships were involved in the protection of the Crimean Bridge.
