US Harpoon missiles destroyed a heavily-armed Russian vessel in the Black Sea: Ukraine's military

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Ukrainian military officials have said they struck the Russian Navy's Vasiliy Bekh tugboat in the Black Sea using two Harpoon missiles supplied by the US.

The action marks the first time Ukraine has announced it has destroyed a Russian vessel with Western-supplied armaments.

On Friday, the attack was announced on Ukraine's Armed Forces Strategic Communications Directorate's Telegram channel. It published a video purporting to show the anti-ship missile blowing up the vessel. Insider could not independently verify the footage.

The head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Maxim Marchenko, said, "This morning, our naval forces struck the Black Sea Fleet support vessel Vasily Bekh, with the TOR anti-aircraft missile system on board. Later it became known that he sank."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-harpoon-missiles-destroyed-heavily-175229244.html

[Just A Box Of Rain]

1. Reportedly sunk as it was attempting to resupply Snake Island

which has become famous as the the place where Ukrainian defenders said, "Russian Warship, Go Fuck Yourself."

According the the UKR Armed forces, "The Black Sea Fleet tugboat Vasiliy Bekh was hit in the Black Sea as it transported ammunition, weapons and personnel of the fleet to Snake Island"

[Deuxcents]

2. Some good news 🇺🇦

[Iggo]

3. Those were Ukrainian harpoon missiles.

Seemingly small but super important distinction.

[SergeStorms]

5. Exactly.

Once they left U.S. posession they became Ukrainian missiles.

We don't want Ukrainia to pull the U.S. into a shooting war with Russia over whose missiles they are.

[XorXor]

4. Heavily-armed tugboat?

I take it they mean it was carrying lots of weapons for Russian occupiers on Snake Island, but the language used implies something else to me.

That being said, glad those weapons won't be getting offloaded.

[NCLefty]

6. That stuck out to me too.

[XorXor]

8. I laughed first, but then I googled it just in case Russia did in fact have a heavily armed tugboat

Seems like something that would be interesting to see.

[czarjak]

7. Vlad will burn the world down just because he can.