Ukraine’s security service on Monday claimed responsibility for a first-of-its kind “special operation” that it said critically damaged a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk, a key naval hub on Russia’s Black Sea coast.
A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official told the Financial Times that the agency had deployed underwater drones together with the Ukrainian Navy to hit the Russian Kilo-class submarine known as the 636.3 Varshavyanka.
Dubbed “Sub Sea Baby” — named after the chief of the SBU, Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk, whose name translates from Ukrainian as “baby” — the drones are the latest naval attack vessel in Ukraine’s ever increasing arsenal.