Ukrainian forces strike Russian defenses on Black Sea island
11:51 AM EDT, August 7, 2024
On August 6, 2024, special forces from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense unit destroyed Russian armored vehicles, including MT-LBs, an enemy electronic warfare complex, and Russian fortifications. This is not the end, as the Russians also suffered human casualties.
Tendrivska Spit is a narrow island about 40 miles long and up to 1 mile wide. It is located in the northern part of the Black Sea, near Ukrainian Crimea.
It was there on August 6, 2024, that the special forces of the Artan operational unit and the Naval Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine landed on the island and destroyed Russian armored vehicles, including MT-LBs, an enemy electronic warfare complex, and Russian fortifications.
Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, also emphasizes that the Russians suffered human losses.
Ukrainian military intelligence reported that the above operation was not the first successful entry of military intelligence units onto Tendrivska Spit.
Russians lose valuable equipment
Among the most common machines used by the Russians in the conflict in Ukraine are the T-72 tanks, BMP-2s, and MT-LB transports. However, this was the case at the beginning of the war, as pointed out by Kovalenko.
Today, however, the once numerous vehicles have become rare. We are talking about MT-LBs, which have now nearly completely disappeared from the battlefield.
Analysts estimate that so far, the destruction of over 1,180 MT-LB transports has been documented in photos or videos.
However, these are not the total losses that have affected the Russians. Kovalenko believes that this number should be multiplied by 2.5 – then one can get the real number of destroyed MT-LBs. This means that the Russian Federation, according to calculations, has lost nearly 3,000 vehicles (exactly 2,950).
