From 18:30 on December 25 to 03:00 on December 26, 2023, the enemy attacked from the southeast with Shahed-type attack UAVs. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Telegram.
19 launches of Shaheds were recorded from the areas of Balaklava - Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russia.
As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, the Ukrainian Air Force and Defense Forces eliminated 13 Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs in Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions.
At approximately 02:30 a.m. on December 26, tactical aviation of the Air Force attacked a large landing ship Novocherkassk of the Russian Black Sea Fleet near Feodosia with cruise missiles.
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The damage to the large Russian landing ship Novocherkassk in the port of temporarily occupied Feodosia led to a prolonged detonation of ammunition and a large fire. The consequences are being clarified. This was reported by Natalia Humeniuk, a spokeswoman for the Southern Defense Forces of Ukraine, during a telethon.
Answering the question about the situation in Feodosia, Humeniuk said: "Obviously enchanting. I would even say explosively enchanting. Because the explosion was really powerful, the detonation was long, and the fire is large-scale."
According to her, now it is necessary to wait for more accurate data, because the combat work done is half the battle. "Next, we need to collect comprehensive information on its results. So far, this is all that is visible," she said.
Assessing the enemy's losses in addition to the ship itself, Humeniuk noted that such a large detonation was caused not only by fuel or ammunition of the ship itself.
"The specificity of large landing ships is that they are now used by the enemy almost constantly as logistics facilities, as transportation of important cargo. This is what they cannot do in any other way. Let's remember that they have difficulties using the famous Kerch Bridge and other transport and logistics routes. So, it is likely that this was a kind of "Christmas present". Fully wrapped," she said.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the defeat of their large landing ship Novocherkassk in the port of temporarily occupied Feodosia. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
"Last night, while repelling an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces using air guided missiles in the Feodosia basing point, the Novocherkassk large landing ship was damaged," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
However, the Russians also fantasized that the air defense system "destroyed two Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft" that were launching the missiles.
"In the course of an anti-aircraft battle, two enemy Su-24 tactical aircraft were destroyed by air defense systems near the village of Zhovten (125 km northeast of Mykolaiv), which were launching air guided missiles," the Russian Defense Ministry invented.
