A new Russian corvette has appeared in the Black Sea, probably brought by river from Tatarstan
Russia has inlanded a new Project 22800 Karakurt missile corvette, which carries Kalibr cruise missiles, into the Black Sea.
This is reported by Defence Express with reference to satellite images published by OSINT analyst MT_Anderson.
They show that there were two Karakurtas in Novorossiysk on December 5 – the completed and tested Amur ship, and, presumably, the Tucha.
Unlike the previous three Karakurts, which were built at the facilities of the Zaliv plant in the temporarily occupied Kerch, the Tucha corvette was built at a shipyard in the Russian city of Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan), on the banks of the Volga River. Therefore, the publication assumes that the Russians moved the new Kalibr carrier to Novorossiysk via the Volga-Don Canal instead of the destroyed Askold corvette.
Askold itself is still located in Kerch. The Russians covered the areas of the Askold hull that had suffered the most damage from above.
