In a shocking escalation, Russia has sunk Ukraine’s largest naval ship, ‘Simferopol’, in the Danube River delta using a naval drone. This is Russia’s first successful sea drone strike on a Ukrainian Navy vessel since the war began in 2022. The Laguna-class reconnaissance ship was Ukraine’s biggest commissioned warship in over a decade, launched in 2019 and inducted in 2021. According to Moscow, the remotely operated boat targeted the vessel near Odessa, marking a historic turning point in naval warfare.