Ukraine Waited Until Russia Docked Its Flagship — Then Sent 8 Drones to ERASE It

At 03:23 in the morning, Russia’s Admiral Makarov missile frigate was moored inside Novorossiysk port — engines cold, crew at rest, air defenses on standby. One of the last modern frigates in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, carrying eight Kalibr cruise missiles and serving as the mobile command center for the entire fleet’s Black Sea operations. Russia believed the ship was safe inside a protected anchorage. Ukraine had already launched the trap. In this video we break down the full attack sequence of Ukraine’s coordinated drone and unmanned surface vessel strike on Admiral Makarov — how eight UJ-22 Bobr long-range strike drones flew at 200 feet above the sea surface to avoid radar detection while five Magura V5 unmanned boats approached simultaneously, three of them pure decoys broadcasting false civilian signals designed to drain Russia’s Pantsir-S1 missile magazine before the real strike arrived. We analyze how Ukraine built a decoy inside a decoy — releasing nine FPV jamming drones from the decoy boats to further exhaust Russia’s air defense response cycle, how the Krasukha-4 electronic warfare system briefly blinded the entire attack before Ukraine sacrificed one Bobr drone to destroy the jamming antenna cluster, and how the surviving drones switched to autonomous AI-guided flight using onboard terrain maps and gyroscopes when GPS was cut — flying the rest of the mission entirely without operator input. We cover Russia’s Lancet loitering munition response, the destruction of two Russian Lancets by redirected Bobr drones mid-intercept, and the final simultaneous strike that hit Admiral Makarov from two directions at once — a 700-pound warhead at the waterline to destroy propulsion and a direct superstructure hit to blind the ship’s fire control radars and command post. After Moskva was sunk in open water in 2022, Russia moved its entire Black Sea Fleet into protected anchorages believing port proximity meant safety. Novorossiysk just proved it doesn’t. This is the full breakdown of how Ukraine dismantled that assumption — one layer at a time.

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