MOSCOW. May 31 (Interfax) - The Russian military has reported the destruction of the Ukrainian Navy's Yury Olefirenko ship.
"The last warship of the Ukrainian Navy, the Yury Olefirenko, was destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces in a precision-guided strike on the military anchorage at Odessa's port on May 29," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
The Yury Olefirenko is a medium-sized landing ship built as part of Project 773, which was launched at the Northern Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in 1970. According to public sources, it can deploy more than 150 troops and up to ten armored vehicles, and transport up to 250 tonnes of cargo.