Updated: Russia-Ukraine Flash Report 13 OCT 2023 - 05:00 PDT - Russian Project 22160 Patrol Boat Damaged (Patreon)

Update: Preliminary, but we have solid intel that there are casualties - dead and wounded - number unknown.

Ukrainian and Russian sources are reporting that a Project 22160 patrol boat, with Russian sources claiming it is the Pavel Derzhavin, has suffered mobility kill damage. Russian sources claim that the Derzhavin was being towed back to Sevastopol when the tugboat also came under attack by an "experimental" SeaBaby uncrewed surface or potentially subsurface drone. According to Russian sources, the tugboat was also damaged.

We don't need to ask our hedgehogs to confirm the damage to a Project 22160 ship because the incident happened within sight of Sevastopol, with multiple witnesses, pictures, and videos. There are multiple reports that there was an explosion, and the ship is trailing a plume of dark black smoke from the aft.

The Pavel Derzhavin was reported damaged by a mine two days ago, and the pictures and videos of the damaged 22160 patrol boat don't show a tugboat in the area. Whether it is the Derzhavin or another patrol boat is, for the moment, academic. We can confirm that a Russian 22160 patrol boat was attacked and experienced mobility kill damage.