New satellite imagery offers clear looks at the aftermath of the destruction of the Russian Navy’s Ropucha class landing ship Novocherkassk. There is clear damage to the pier where the vessel, which is now just a burned-out hulk, was moored in the port city of Feodosia on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. Novocherkassk suffered multiple secondary explosions, including one that produced a huge fireball, after being hit by Ukrainian air-launched cruise missiles, as you can read more about in The War Zone‘s initial reporting.
The details of the devastation can be seen in a high-resolution satellite image of Feodosia taken today that The War Zone has obtained from Planet Labs and another one from Maxar Technologies taken yesterday. The New York Times‘ Christiaan Triebert was the first to share the Maxar image.
The imagery shows the submerged remains of Novocherkassk and at least one distinct impact crater and indentation in the pier alongside where the vessel had been. There are what appear to be smaller craters, as well as heavy scorching and debris, elsewhere along the pier.