Russian warship hit by Ukranian drones for first time in Gulf of Finland

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Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said it targeted the ship Naro-Fominsk during a wider drone strike against a Kremlin oil export depot in the Baltic Sea (Picture: AK Bars/e2w)…

A Russian warship has been attacked in the Gulf of Finland, forcing it to turn back and return to port.

Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said it targeted the ship Naro-Fominsk during a wider drone strike against a Kremlin oil export depot in the Baltic Sea.

It is thought to be the first time Ukrainian drones have attacked a Russian vessel in an area of the Baltic open to civilian maritime traffic.

Finland’s military said there was no immediate threat and described the incident as being the result of Russia’s continued full-scale war.

‘The Finnish Defence Forces detected… a strike on a Russian warship in the Gulf of Finland area and has monitored the development of the situation,’ a spokesperson said.

The defence forces declined to provide further details about the location or timing of the incident, or how it was detected.

It appears to have taken place in the early hours of Wednesday in a narrow stretch near Suursaari, about 28 miles from Finland’s coast.

The attack came as Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, also the president’s son-in-law, travelled to the Kremlin for talks with Vladimir Putin.

The two then flew to Dublin to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky as Washington sought new momentum for its peace efforts.

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