Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 11:10

The Russians assaulted and captured the landing ship Konstyantin Olshanskiy in the Lake of Donuzlav. The assault began at 17:15, the ship’s captain Dmytro Kovalenko told Ukrayinska Pravda. “Here they go”, he said.

At the same time, Oleksandr Hutnyk, the senior miner of the artillery mine and torpedo combat unit, who is a senior sailor of the ship Cherkassy, which is in the same lake, told Ukrayinska Pravda that as of 17:22 the landing ship was enveloped in smoke and she was being approached by a Russian motor launch.

According to the head of the Media Center of the MOD of Ukraine in Crimea Vladyslav Seleznyov, “Olshanskiy let out two smokescreens.”

Photo of Oleksiy Tamrazov