The Black Sea’s Snake Island and the strategically vital gas and oil platforms known as “Boyko Towers” are under Ukrainian fire control but remain in a no-man’s zone, due to the active Russian military aviation presence in the sector, Ukrainian Navy spokesman and 3rd Rank Captain Dmytro Pletenchuk said in an interview on Oct. 24.
Eight drones approaching Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula were "neutralized" by Russian electronic warfare systems and air defenses overnight, the Kremlin's puppet governor in the Ukrainian territory, Sergei Aksyonov, claimed on Telegram on Oct. 17.
The Nikolai Muru rescue tugboat was also damaged in the Ukrainian Navy's Oct. 13 attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which targeted the Pavel Derzhavin patrol ship, the Ukrainian Navy spokesman and 3rd Rank Captain Dmytro Pletenchuk told NV’s sister publication Ukrainska Pravda in an Oct. 14 interview.