One of the amphibious warfare ships from Novorossiysk spotted in Sevastopol

One of the amphibious warfare ships that had been withdrawn from Novorossiysk arrived in occupied Sevastopol.

The Crimean Wind Telegram channel showed a photo of a ship in the city’s bay.

“Our eyes can see everything: a Project 775 amphibious warfare ship in Sevastopol Bay,” the Crimean Wind group said.

According to the Crimean Telegram channel, the Russian amphibious warfare ship arrived in the bay on June 7.

It is possible that the Ukrainian attack with naval drones on the night of June 8 was intended to destroy the ship.

The Russian Black Sea Fleet has only two large Project 775 amphibious warfare ships left, the Azov and Yamal.

There are also ships from other fleets: Georgy Pobedonosets, Korolev, Olenegorskiy Gornyak and Minsk. Some of them have already been put out of commission after the Ukrainian attacks.

As previously reported, on June 5, Russian amphibious warfare ships, as part of a powerful escort, left the port of Novorossiysk, where they had been hiding from Ukrainian attacks for a long time.

The following ships had left Novorossiysk:

• Two Project 22160 patrol ships;
• Two Buyan-class corvettes;
• Two Ropucha-class landing ships;
• One Ivan Gren-class landing ship;
• One Tapir-class landing ship;
• Two Kilo-class submarines.

Together with them, two Project 266M Aquamarine-M minesweepers and one Project 12700 Alexandrite minesweeper also set off in an unknown direction.

The reasons and end point for the deployment of such a large grouping of Russian Navy ships are currently unknown.

One explanation could be the use of surviving Russian amphibious warfare ships to perform logistical tasks in place of the recently damaged ferry vessels in Crimea. Heavily armed patrol and missile ships, as well as minesweepers, were sent along with the landing craft as escorts.