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The Russian-occupied port of Sevastopol, Crimea has come under renewed attack by Ukraine's drone forces after a monthslong lull. <\/p>\n
Three loud and heavy explosions were reported in Kozacha Bay late Monday night, and citizen journalists said that a large fire was burning in the area. Both aerial and maritime drone attacks were reported. <\/p>\n
Sevastopol's Russian-backed governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, told state media that two Ukrainian aerial drones had been shot down over the Black Sea. He did not confirm local reports of large blasts. <\/p>\n
Kozacha Bay is located five miles southwest of the main harbor, which is more heavily protected by barriers and shore defenses. The bay is home to a large fuel depot, which Ukrainian forces targeted<\/a> in April 2023. That attack was successful, resulting in a "level 4" fire and a major regional response. Three months later, Ukrainian forces hit and detonated a large munitions depot in the same area. <\/p>\n Ukraine's suicide drone boats<\/a> and guided missile strikes have been successful enough to drive most of the Black Sea Fleet out of Sevastopol. After losing corvettes, amphibs, missile boats, an attack sub<\/a> and even a cruiser<\/a>, the Russian Navy has largely withdrawn<\/a> from the western half of the Black Sea and has concentrated its remaining forces in the relative safety of Novorossiysk, a port on the sea's northeastern corner.<\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Russian-occupied port of Sevastopol, Crimea has come under renewed attack by Ukraine's drone forces after a monthslong lull. Three loud and heavy explosions were reported in Kozacha Bay late Monday night, and citizen journalists said that a large fire was burning in the area. Both aerial and maritime drone attacks were reported. Sevastopol's …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4984,2667,6801,19095,1029],"class_list":["post-53912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-attacks","tag-drone","tag-renews","tag-sevastopol","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/53913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}