Russian Federation patrols Black Sea with submarines after its ships are hit

According to Ukrinform, this was reported by Dmytro Pletenchuk, head of the Strategic Communications Centre of the Southern Defence Forces, on the air of the United News telethon.

"In the Black Sea, they are now performing tasks with submarines. They have already formed a practice where these submarines change each other in the morning.

In the Azov-Black Sea region, they have four submarines, three of which are cruise missile carriers. Two submarines periodically go to sea," he said.

At the same time, Pletenchuk said, the Russians decided that the Sea of Azov was safer and are now trying to organise a training process for their ships there.

In particular, there are currently three large Russian amphibious assault ships and three more small missile ships of the Buyan-M project in the Sea of Azov.

These ships have moved from their home base in Novorossiysk.

To protect their ships in the Sea of Azov from Ukrainian drones, the Russians are building structures in the form of barges and background barriers, Pletenchuk said.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy has lost 56 warships, including the large landing ships Moskva, Minsk, Yamal and others.

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