RFS Caesar Kunikov is the fourth invaluable Ropucha class amphibious landing ship to be lost.
Ukraine’s special intelligence unit Group 13 is wreaking havoc on the Black Sea Fleet, with naval kamikaze drones sinking two more Russian warships. Overnight on 1 February the Project 12411 (Tarantul III) missile corvette RFS Ivanovets was attacked by multiple USVs while she was patrolling the west coast of Crimea.
Despite being equipped with anti-ship and anti-air missile systems, a 76mm gun and 30mm point defence guns, the Sovietera warship had little defence against the attack by a group of low-observable Magura V5 USVs packed with high explosive.