Moscow: Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday that it had destroyed a Ukrainian navy ship near Odesa with a missile strike overnight, Khaleej Times reported.
The ministry said in its statement that its missiles had hit a ‘Project 1241’ corvette, a class of Soviet missile corvettes with a Nato reporting name of Tarantul, along side shooting down two Ukrainian SU-24 bombers and a Mi-24 helicopter over the Snake island in the Black Sea at night, the ministry said in a statement.
It claimed to have destroyed a total of four Ukrainian warplanes, four helicopters and an assault boat in the past 24 hours.