Ukraine has disabled five out of six Russian landing crafts since start of full-scale war

Ukrainian forces have disabled five major Russian military landing crafts since the start of the full-scale war, Ukraine's Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk says.

Pletenchuk noted that Russian military command currently has no resources and time to replenish the Black Sea Fleet, established to blackmail the grain deal and control Crimea.

I remind you, only from the large landing crafts, Russia added six to those already there. But the result is known: five of them are no longer in service. This bill can still grow, he added.

In March 2022, a Ukrainian attack against the port in occupied Berdiansk destroyed the landing ship Saratov and damaged two others, Novocherkassk, and Cesar Kunikov.

Another landing craft Olenegorskiy Gornyak was hit by a surface drone on August 4 while docked at Russia's naval base in Novorossiysk. The ship was towed away for repairs. 

Pletenchuk did not name the fifth disabled vessel.

The Navy spokesman also assured that the landing of Russian naval troops is currently impossible and does not threaten the Odesa coast, as it was feared before. The Ukrainian Navy has already liberated an area of 25,000 square kilometers around the Black Sea coast. At the same time, Ukrainian coastal artillery controls the sea more than 100 nautical miles inland.