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Russian sources confirm Tsiklon Karakurt-class missile ship was sunk by US-supplied ATACMS missiles (www.armyrecognition.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Fleet

By March 2024, Ukraine's Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said they had disabled or destroyed one third of the Russian Black Sea fleet.[7]

That being said, keep in mind that some of those ships are specialized and interdependent. Like, a seagoing fleet tug doesn't do you nearly as much good without an aircraft carrier to tow and vice versa. So even aside from Ukraine focusing on more-valuable ships, I expect that even a random one-third of ships being lost would probably cause a greater degradation of capability than one-third.