Four US-made fast assault boats Willard Sea Force with landing troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed in the Black Sea overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
"On September 4, 2023, aircraft of the naval aviation of Russia's Black Sea fleet destroyed four US-made fast military boats with amphibious groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northwestern part of the Black Sea as they were moving toward Cape Tarkhankut on the Crimean coast," the ministry said.
On July 22, a russian aircraft destroyed two Willard Sea Force boat with Ukrainian military on board near Zmeiny (Snake) Island in the Black Sea.
Earlier, the MoD reported that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is now permanently in control of all types of exploration that goes on in the Black Sea. On 29 to 30 August, the Russian naval aviation forces thwarted an attempt to land a detachment of special operations of the Ukraine Armed Forces on the coast of Crimea to commit terrorist attacks.