{"id":25356,"date":"2026-02-24T04:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25356"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:02:13","slug":"two-russian-patrol-boats-damaged-in-latest-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25356","title":{"rendered":"Two Russian patrol boats damaged in latest Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Two Russian patrol boats damaged in latest Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Officials of Ukraine&#8217;s Armed Forces General Staff said that drones damaged two Russian patrol boats during an attack against targets in Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday, February 21.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels, which were at the naval base in Sevastopol, have both been identified as Project 22460 or Rubin-class patrol boats operated by the Border Service of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).<\/p>\n<p>The same attack also targeted an aviation repair facility further north in Yevpatoria, where two Russian Be-12 amphibious maritime patrol aircraft sustained damage.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of damage suffered by the patrol boats and the aircraft in this latest attack is still being clarified.<\/p>\n<p>A Rubin-class boat of the FSB Border Service had also been targeted in an attack on Russian vessels in the Caspian Sea last December.<\/p>\n<p>The border service has been operating the Project 22460 boats in Crimea to patrol the surrounding maritime zones claimed by Russia and to support Russian naval blockades in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Will Xavier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/acts-of-war\/two-russian-patrol-boats-damaged-in-latest-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-crimea\">Go to baird maritime<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Officials of Ukraine&#8217;s Armed Forces General Staff said that drones damaged two Russian patrol boats during an attack against targets in Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday, February 21.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels, which were at the naval base in Sevastopol, have both been identified as Project 22460 or Rubin-class patrol boats operated by the Border Service of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).<\/p>\n<p>The same attack also targeted an aviation repair facility further north in Yevpatoria, where two Russian Be-12 amphibious maritime patrol aircraft sustained damage.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of damage suffered by the patrol boats and the aircraft in this latest attack is still being clarified.<\/p>\n<p>A Rubin-class boat of the FSB Border Service had also been targeted in an attack on Russian vessels in the Caspian Sea last December.<\/p>\n<p>The border service has been operating the Project 22460 boats in Crimea to patrol the surrounding maritime zones claimed by Russia and to support Russian naval blockades in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,22,63],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-25356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acts-of-war","category-baird-maritime","category-coast-guard","tag-baird-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}