Another Russian warship went up into the flame yesterday after a suspected Ukrainian missile strike landed on it.
Video showed a fire purportedly on a vessel in Sevastopol’s Sukharnaya Bay after explosions were heard in the annexed Crimean naval port.
About Kommuna
The Russian warship of 109-year-old was the world’s oldest active naval vessel. Kommuna was built in the reign of the last Tsar, Nicholas II.
Though, there was no official confirmation that the distinctive and historic Kommuna, commissioned in 1915, was hit, triggering flames and smoke.
But a pro-war Russian report on PolitNavigator channel appeared to back the version of fire on the Kommuna.
Another report suggested a landing ship and another vessel had been targeted.
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The Putin-appointed Sevastopol governor admitted to a ‘small fire’ after an incoming missile had been repelled by the port’s defences, but did not name the ship.
The ‘falling fragments’ caused the blaze, which was ‘quickly extinguished’, claimed the official, Mikhail Razvozhaev.
Kommuna is 315ft long salvage ship, it was used during the current war when the Russian navy investigated the sinking of the fleet’s flagship, the Moskva, in 2022, according to accounts.
