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The Russians also used ramming to capture several Ukrainian ships near Crimea.
by greedo 7y ago
The Russians also used ramming to capture several Ukrainian ships near Crimea.
- agapon 7y agoThis is not correct. Russian did not achieve anything by ramming, they even damaged one of their ships instead. The Ukrainian ships effectively surrendered after overwhelming Russian forces opened live fire near and on them. The Wikipedia has it right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Strait_incident#The_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Strait_incident#The_inci...
- greedo 7y agoThey damaged their own ship, not by ramming the Ukrainians, but by accidentally colliding with each other.