Destruction of Russian pilot boat “Mriya” in Crimea confirmed
At the Kerch ferry crossing, the fragments of a downed missile damaged the pilot boat Mriya, which sank.
On the night of May 30, another boat of the Russian occupiers was destroyed as a result of a missile attack on the temporarily occupied Crimea.
This was reported by sources in the Russian media.
The boat crashed and sank. The crew members managed to leave the ship and were not injured.
Mriya pilot boat: what is known
On October 28, 2021, the Azov-Black Sea Basin Branch of Rosmorport acquired the pilot boat Mriya. The boat of the 1459 project was manufactured in 1985 at the Leningrad Shipyard “Pella” and became the 7th pilot vessel of the branch.
According to publicly available data, the Mriya is a steel single-deck vessel with a bow ledge, a single deck wheelhouse, and aft diesel engines.
The pilot boats of this project can be operated in winter conditions with a broken ice thickness of no more than 30 cm.
DIU confirms destruction of two “Tuna” boats
On May 30, a special unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine “Group 13” using Ukrainian Magura V5 strike marine drones once again effectively attacked the ship and boat fleet of the aggressor state of Russia in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
According to the GUR, in order to neutralize the attack drones on the approach to the Narrow Bay, Russian occupants in Crimea took off 32 times, including Su-27/30/35, MiG-29, Be-12, An-26 and Ka-27/29 and Mi-8 helicopters. The invaders also randomly used small arms and 30-mm cannons.
However, nothing prevented the DIU Special Forces from successfully completing the combat mission: the strike destroyed two Russian boats – according to preliminary data, high-speed transport amphibious assault boats KS-701 “Tunaets”. The information is being updated,” the scouts noted.
