"Saturn" will not sail anymore: the DIU showed footage of the destruction of a Russian tugboat off the coast of Crimea

Servicemen of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine showed footage of the destruction of a Russian tugboat on the night of June 6. The operation was conducted in the waters of Lake Panske on the coast of the temporarily occupied Crimea.

A special unit of the 9th Department of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine attacked the Project 498 tugboat Saturn, or Proteus, with surface drones. This was reported by the press service of the intelligence agency.

Intelligence officials joked that Saturn would no longer sail – another vessel of the Russian invaders was destroyed.

"The devastating fire damage was inflicted after a successful breakthrough of the occupiers' line of defensive barriers in the Black Sea," the DIU said.

According to the footage, at least two Ukrainian naval drones crashed into the enemy target.

To add: Lake Panske is located in the northwestern part of the Crimean peninsula, between the villages of Chornomorske and Mizhvodne.

On the morning of June 6, a representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Andriy Yusov, announced the destruction of another enemy vessel in the Black Sea. He promised that the agency would show the video of the attack and clarify its details.

As previously reported by OBOZ.UA, the Air Defense Forces destroyed 17 of 18 Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones on the night of June 6. The enemy launched the UAVs in several waves from the south to the west of our country.

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