Ukranian drone commander who sank some of Russia’s best warships in ‘never done before’ attack says he wants ‘to sink something bigger’ and claims Putin’s entire Black Sea fleet could be destroyed

The Ukrainian drone commander claims that Vladimir Putin’s entire Black Sea Fleet could be destroyed.

Known only by his call sign 13, he fulfilled his lifelong goal of sinking a Russian warship when two of them were blown up in the waters of the Black Sea in Crimea on November 10.

He is currently stationed at a secret base on the Dnieper River, where he has a naval fleet of drones in his arsenal with enough explosives to destroy the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Call Sign 13 now aims to “sink something bigger,” he said. Time.

Speaking of how the drones managed to avoid a stream of machine gun bullets to destroy the Akula and Chamois class landing ships, the Russians were unable to stop them despite knowing they were coming.

“My life’s goal was to sink a Russian ship, and we sank two of them,” he said. “And, as far as I know, no one has done this anywhere before.”

One success of the conflict is Ukraine’s ability to push back the Russian fleet, opening corridors to its economy and global supplies.

This was noted by Lord Cameron during his visit to Odessa last month.

He said: “If you look at the big picture, what has happened recently is that the Ukrainians have pushed the Russian fleet back through the Black Sea, they have opened up a sea route for exports, their economy is growing.

“And, of course, they knock on the doors of both NATO and the EU and receive a very warm response.

“These are huge achievements. And our task today is to build on these achievements and decide what other concrete steps we can take to help Ukrainians in their struggle, and to show that Russian aggression should never bear fruit.”

But call sign 13 has another dream – to harm Putin’s fleet.

“My dream is to sink even more Russian ships, much larger ones,” he said.

– So much that they won’t be able to swim at all. Do we have the opportunity to destroy the entire Black Sea Fleet? Yes. And we are working on it.”

Just two days ago, Ukraine destroyed one of Putin’s newly built warships in a daring missile attack on Russia’s annexed Crimea.

The downed vessel was described as the newly built Askold missile ship, one of the most modern in Vladimir Putin’s fleet.

Moscow admitted that it lost the ship as a result of an attack by 13 cruise missiles, but did not specify which one.

The footage shows the attack on the Butoma shipyard in Kerch, not far from the main Putin Bridge connecting the annexed peninsula with Russia.

Since launching a counteroffensive against Moscow’s forces this summer, Kyiv has stepped up attacks on the peninsula in an attempt to suppress the Russian Black Sea Navy.

According to state media, the Russian Ministry of Defense said: “On November 4, the Ukrainian army launched 15 cruise missiles at the Butoma (Zaliv) shipbuilding plant in the city of Kerch.

“Air defense systems shot down 13 cruise missiles. As a result of being hit by an enemy cruise missile, the ship located at the plant was damaged.”

The ministry did not say how badly the ship was damaged or say which vessel was attacked.

Debris from the downed missiles also fell on a nearby dock, but no one was injured, the Russian-appointed governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said.

The nearby Crimean Bridge leading to the Russian mainland was briefly closed on Saturday for unknown reasons.

Ukraine announced the attack on Saturday and confirmed details on Sunday.

“On the evening of November 4, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out successful strikes on the sea and port infrastructure of the Zaliv shipyard in temporarily occupied Kerch,” the statement said.

Nikolai Oleschuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, mentioned the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, sunk by Ukrainian missiles on April 14, 2022, in a Telegram message in which he said: “I hope another ship followed the Moskva.”

Ukrainian sources later said the destroyed vessel was a Kalibr missile carrying the 197-foot-long Askold missile that was about to enter service, or one of two other Karakurt missiles of the same class.

According to some reports, it was hit three times by the French version of the Storm Shadow missile.

“The ship has not even taken part in sailing or combat yet – it was undergoing final tests in order to then go to sea and fight against our state,” said Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat.

Askold is a Project 22800 Karakurt warship, three of which are being built at a Russian-occupied shipyard.

According to some reports, Askold, like many Russian Black Sea warships, has moved to Novorossiysk, away from the Ukrainian missile test site.

The other two ships being built in Kerch are the Amur and the Cyclone, which, like the Askold, were due to enter service this year.