A cruise missile hit a ship in the Black Sea.

A ship was destroyed by a cruise missile in the vicinity of Zmeiny Island. Relevant video footage taken from an unmanned aerial vehicle appeared on the Web this morning. Judging by the coordinates imprinted on the drone's interface, the ship was destroyed in the vicinity of Serpent's Island.

On the presented video frames, you can see how a cruise missile of an unidentified type enters the target from a small height, after which it rises sharply and plummets into the ship. Due to the fact that the drone filming was carried out from a distance of about 75 kilometers (judging by the coordinates of the target and the coordinates of the location of the drone - ed. note), it has not yet been possible to establish the type of missile and the type of the destroyed ship, however, according to a number of data, it can to talk about a tugboat that carried out an unknown mission near Serpent's Island.

At the moment, there are no details on this matter, however, experts note that the flight path of the cruise missile indicates that the strike was delivered by an anti-ship missile, although at the moment the direction of its launch remains unknown.

Judging by the time of shooting, the strike on the ship was delivered at night, however, at the moment there are no satellite images that allow us to draw any conclusions.