The Russian military is collecting the wreckage of Ukrainian naval drones to copy them, Andriy Yusov, a representative of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence or HUR said on Ukrainian national television on Dec. 8.
The first Russian naval drones will be delivered to the Russian armed forces by the end of 2023 and tested in the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine, Mikhail Danilenko, managing director of Kingisepp Machine-Building Plant (KMZ), told Sputnik.
ReutersThe CIA was involved in an operation that developed the naval drones used by Ukraine to attack the Crimean Bridge in July, according to a report. The detail was revealed in a Washington Post article exploring the “deep ties” which have emerged between the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence since 2014 and Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. U.S. officials had “raised concerns” ahead of an October 2022 operation carried out by the SBU—Ukraine’s domestic security service—in which a truck bomb
Russia has recently installed barriers at the entrance to Sevastopol Bay in Crimea, likely as a precaution against Ukrainian naval drones, as seen in a satellite image shared by Brady Efric, an Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) analyst, on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Russian "governor of Sevastopol" Mikhail Razvozhayev said that the military repelled an attack by two naval drones in the Black Sea. Source: Razvozhayev on Telegram Quote: "Loud noises in the area of the Northern Mall [are the combat work of] the crews of the Black Sea Fleet's ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare).