War in Ukraine: Russia moves warships out of Crimea as Ukrainian strikes continue
Ukrainian officials say that the sea battlefront line has been pushed back at least 185 km from Ukraine’s coast since Russia's full-scale invasion began.
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00:00 The Russian military recently transferred several Black Sea Fleet vessels from the port
00:08 in occupied Sevastopol in Crimea to the port of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai, likely
00:13 in an effort to protect them from continued Ukrainian strikes on Russian assets in annexed
00:19 Crimea.
00:20 The Institute for the Study of War says satellite imagery shows that Russian forces transferred
00:26 at least 10 vessels from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk, including three diesel submarines, five landing
00:34 ships and several small missile ships.
00:38 Ukrainian officials say that the sea battlefront line has been pushed back at least 185 kilometres
00:45 from Ukraine's coast since Russia's full-scale invasion began.
00:52 Natalia Khomenyuk, head of Ukraine's Southern Military Command's press centre, said that
00:56 ships and boats of the Black Sea Fleet are not sailing towards Ukraine's territorial
01:01 waters now and, while appearing near the Crimean coast, they do not go beyond Cape Tarhankut,
01:08 which is right here.
01:10 At the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russian ships approached
01:15 Ukraine's region of Odessa within artillery strike range.
01:23 By the end of September, the UK defence ministry said the Russian Black Sea Fleet has suffered
01:27 a series of major attacks, more damaging and more coordinated than thus far in the war.
01:33 A dynamic deep strike battle is underway in the Black Sea.
01:37 This is likely forcing Russia into a reactive posture while demonstrating that Ukraine's
01:42 military can undermine the Kremlin's symbolic and strategic power projection from its warm
01:48 water port in occupied Sevastopol.
01:50 [SWOOSH]