Russia is going to attack Ukraine with a new ship instead of the destroyed Askold

Instead of the “Askold” corvette “Kalibr” missile carrier that was bombed in Kerch, Russia is preparing to fire at Ukraine from the new “Tucha” ship that was sent from Tatarstan.

The information appeared from the publication Defence Express based on satellite images from OSINT analyst MT_Anderson. Investigators analyzed the current status of all four missile corvettes that carry the Caliber cruise missiles.

According to her, as of December 3, the Askold corvette, which was actually destroyed during a missile attack on November 4, 2023, was already being repaired at the plant Zaliv in temporarily occupied Kerch. At the same time, the Russians covered from above those parts of the ship’s hull that suffered the greatest destruction.

At the same time, the picture for December 5, 2023 in Novorossiysk is of greatest interest. It shows two missile corvettes of project 22800 “Karakurt”: “Amur”, completed and already tested, but not yet accepted into the composition of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, and probably the ship “Tucha”.

Corvette “Tucha” was built at the shipyard of the Russian city of Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan), on the banks of the Volga. It is assumed that the new Kalibr carrier instead of the destroyed Askold corvette was driven by the Russians to Novorossiysk along the Volga-Don Canal.

The corvette was laid down in 2019 and launched in Zelenodolsk in July 2023. According to its characteristics, the ship does not differ from the previous ships of project 22800 “Karakurt”.