Russian Warship Catches Fire in Black Sea Following Ukrainian Strike: Officials

Satellite image showing barge, serna class landing craft, and sunken serna craft off the coast of Snake Island, Ukraine, on May 13, 2022. Maxar Technologies via AP

A Russian ship caught fire after it was struck in the Black Sea and was forced to return to port, a Ukrainian official claimed on Friday.

Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Kyiv-backed Odesa Regional Military Administration, told news outlets that “as a result of the actions of our military sailors, the logistics ship Vsevolod Bobrov, one of the newest in the Russian fleet, [caught fire]. They say that it is [being towed] to Sevastopol.”