{"id":1423692,"date":"2026-08-01T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/defense-forces-sink-sanctioned-container-ship-yanina-near-novorossiysk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:16:49","slug":"defense-forces-sink-sanctioned-container-ship-yanina-near-novorossiysk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/defense-forces-sink-sanctioned-container-ship-yanina-near-novorossiysk\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense forces sink sanctioned container ship Yanina near Novorossiysk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian naval drones sank the Russian container ship Yanina, which belonged to FESCO, a company from the Rosatom group. The ship was under sanctions and had a cargo capacity of over 100,000 tons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He wrote about this in <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/20264\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to Zelensky, on the night of August 1, two Ukrainian naval drones attacked the container ship &#8220;Yanina&#8221; 130 nautical miles from Novorossiysk. As a result of the strike, the ship sank. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1010080125170992%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=267&#038;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> The President noted that the container ship was under sanctions and had a cargo capacity of over 100,000 tons. The vessel belonged to FESCO, which is part of the Rosatom group.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev said that the container ship sank as a result of the attack, and all 17 crew members were rescued. According to him, the Black Sea Fleet&#8217;s naval aviation and the crew of the Delphinus vessel were involved in the rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p> Likhachev also claimed that the Yanina transported exclusively civilian cargo &#8211; from frozen foods to construction and finishing materials.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vtraty-na-ponad-20-milyoniv-dolariv-hur-urazyly-kompleks-pantsyr-kater-ta-stantsiiu-upravlinnia-bpla-rosiian\/\">the destruction of three Russian military targets in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region and Crimea<\/a> . According to intelligence estimates, the losses of the occupiers exceeded $20 million.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/syly-oborony-ukrainy-zavdaly-udariv-po-vorozhykh-tsiliakh-palaie-npz-v-ufi\/\">another series of strikes on Russian logistical and military facilities<\/a> used by the enemy, including in temporarily occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian naval drones sank the Russian container ship Yanina, which belonged to FESCO, a company from the Rosatom group. The ship was under sanctions and had a cargo capacity of over 100,000 tons. He wrote about this in Telegram . According to Zelensky, on the night of August 1, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1423685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1423692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}