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Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
Ukrainian postage stamp, depicting a Ukrainian soldier giving Russian cruiser Moskva the finger, issued two days before she sank. Naval warfare in the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, when the Russian Armed Forces launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014.
Seskuria told CNN that Ukraine’s incursion is partly a “self-defense measure … because Kursk region, due to its location, has been used many times to launch missiles on Ukrainian territory.”
On 25 September, the Special Operations Forces Command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said that 34 Russian officers, including Sokolov, were killed and 105 soldiers injured in the attack. [29] Ukrainian partisan group Atesh later claimed that they provided information used to plan the attack. They reportedly gained leaked information about the Black ...
Ukraine's only mine that produces coking coal - used in its once vast steel industry and vital for the country's pre-war economy - is just a 20-minute drive to the west of Pokrovsk, and open ...
The strike hit a submarine – the first successful attack on a Russian sub of the 18-month war – and a large landing vessel UK Storm Shadow missiles used in Ukraine’s largest strike so far on ...
The Berdiansk port attack was a strike carried out by Ukrainian forces against Russian Navy ships moored in the Port of Berdiansk on 24 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [3] The Alligator-class landing ship Saratov was sunk, and one of the two Ropucha-class landing ships took damage but was able to leave the port.
Ukraine spy agency official says ‘we can confirm large landing vessel and submarine were hit’ in blitz on Russia-occupied port