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By: Jaime Karremann
Post Posted: 03/16/2022 | Last modified: 16-03-2022
The Russian naval vessel Vasily Bykov, which is said to have been shelled with rocket artillery and sunk last week, has been photographed and filmed near Crimea. The ship sailed into Sevastopol harbor free of visible damage.
Vasily Bykov reportedly entered the port of Sevastopol today. (Still: YouTube )
About a week and a half ago, the Vasily Bykov, a patrol ship of the same name, was allegedly shot at by the Ukrainian armed forces with a BM-21 Grad rocket launcher. The missiles are unguided, so just like grenades they fall at a predetermined position. Ideal for non-moving targets. The Ukrainian armed forces nevertheless managed to hit the ship, or so the story went .
The Bykov is said to have been lured to position by a smaller vessel during the night, after which the Grad battery opened fire. Now it is not impossible to hit a ship with unguided projectiles, after all many times more ships have been sunk by unguided projectiles than by guided weapons, but a single salvo is usually not enough.
Doubts arose mainly, as MarineShips.nl wrote earlier, because there was no evidence. The images of a plume of smoke turned out to be from the merchant ship Millennial Spirit that was on fire for days off the coast of Odessa.
But those doubts were also there because there were no images from the Russian side of a sailing Bykov.
Those images are now there (also this photo on Twitter ). Still with a small blow, but the images that have now been shared of the Vasily Bykov have not been seen before and disprove the story from the Ukrainian side. The Vasily Bykov did not sink.
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