MOSCOW. Aug 22 (Interfax) - A Russian warplane has destroyed a U.S.-made military speedboat with a Ukrainian landing unit onboard near Snake Island, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"A U.S.-made Willard Sea Force military speedboat carrying a landing unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed by a plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces east of Snake Island at about 11 a.m. on August 22," the ministry said.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of a Ukrainian reconnaissance boat by a Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jet in the Black Sea. That happened near Russian gas rigs, the Russian military said.