THIS is the astonishing moment Ukraine crushes a £45 million Russian spy ship just hours after Vladimir Putin’s drone invasion of Poland.
Dramatic footage shows the 240ft vessel utterly blitzed after it was stalked and hit near Novorossiysk in the Black Sea, as fears of WW3 rage.
The MPSV07 naval ship was reportedly conducting electronic reconnaissance when its equipment was obliterated by a Ukrainian drone.
Russia has four of these intelligence vessels, which it deploys to gather intelligence on Ukraine.
In a statement, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine said: “The MPSV07 project ship is equipped with diving complexes, remotely operated vehicles, a side-scan sonar, and electronic warfare means.”
Incredible footage shows the moment Ukraine’s drone explodes Vlad’s vessel – destroying the ship’s warfare equipment in a humiliating blow to Russia‘s Black Sea Fleet.
Flames are seen shooting into the air as the ship collapses in the blast.
It was “put out of action for expensive repairs”, reports added.
This is the latest defeat for Vlad as Ukraine turns the Black Sea into a graveyard for his pride-and-joy fleet — using drones, missiles and stealthy commandos instead of frigates and destroyers.
According to former intelligence officer Philip Ingram Russia’s “naval dominance is being challenged like never before” as a video released yesterday showed Ukraine’s drone operators and special forces battering occupied Crimea.
Ingram explained how Ukraine’s attacks have crippled Russia’s radar systems, command posts and even its GLONASS satellite network.
These are “difficult for Russia to repair” and have a massive impact on its ability to coordinate across the theatre, he said in this week’s explosive episode of Battle Plans Exposed,
The pressure is so relentless that Sevastopol — once the pride of Russia’s fleet — is no longer safe.
“A series of audacious Ukrainian attacks has made it a very dangerous place for the Russian Navy,” Ingram noted, with vessels dispersed to Novorossiysk and even a makeshift base in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia.
