Russia's navy is like a 'chicken running around without a head' after a major strike on its Black Sea HQ, says Ukraine official

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Russia navy sailors officers in South Africa
Russian military personnel at a press conference in the port in Richards Bay, South Africa on February 22, 2023.

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Russian officers who hadn't been paid by Moscow sold key intel on the Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian resistance fighters. Then the headquarters blew up.

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A satellite image shows smoke billowing from a Russian Black Sea Navy HQ after a missile strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 22, 2023.
A satellite image shows smoke billowing from a Russian Black Sea Navy HQ after a missile strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 22, 2023.

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Ukraine says it launched its missile strike on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet to coincide with a meeting of Russian naval officers

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A Russian frigate is anchored at a naval base in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sevastopol
A Russian frigate is anchored at a naval base in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sevastopol in April 2010.

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A former guard at one of Putin's luxury palaces said it's like a toxic 'little town' where everyone is snitching on each other

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Side-by-side images. On the left, Vitaly Brizhaty standing in uniform. On the right, a Google Earth view of part of the palace complex at Olyve, Crimea, showing beaches, a helipad, several large buildings, amid forests.. Dates unclear
Valery Brizhaty says he worked as an FSO officer at the Olivye palace complex in Crimea.

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Russia's battered Black Sea Fleet is having another bad day after a Ukrainian missile struck its headquarters in Crimea

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The Black Sea Fleet's headquarters in Sevastopol after a Ukrainian missile strike on Friday afternoon.
Photos and videos showed the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters up in flames after a devastating missile strike.

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Leaked photos said to be a Russian submarine hit by Ukrainian missiles show severe damages that look beyond repair

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Russian Navy's diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don sails in Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey February 13, 2022.
Russian Navy's diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don sails in Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey February 13, 2022.

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Russia is trying to auction off Zelenskyy's apartment in Crimea

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy signing a flag.
Russian officials are planning to auction off Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's apartment in Crimea.

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An experimental sea drone was used to damage a Russian missile ship, Ukrainian sources say

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The Russian ship Samum of the Black Sea Fleet.
The Russian ship Samum of the Black Sea Fleet, pictured in 2019.

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Ukrainian partisans say a double agent in the Russian military helped them plan the devastating attack at a shipyard in Crimea

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Smoke rises from the shipyard that was reportedly hit by Ukrainian missile attack in Sevastopol
Smoke rises from the shipyard that was reportedly hit by Ukrainian missile attack in Sevastopol, Crimea, in this still image from video taken September 13, 2023.

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A Russian sub took 'catastrophic' damage from a Ukrainian missile strike despite attempts to downplay it, UK intel says

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BlackSky imagery captured the damage caused by a Ukranian cruise missile attack on the Sevastopol Shipyard dry docks in Russia occupied Crimea on September 13, 2023.
BlackSky imagery captured the damage caused by a Ukranian cruise missile attack on the Sevastopol Shipyard dry docks in Russian-occupied Crimea on September 13, 2023.

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