Ukrainian forces have damaged a Russian military icebreaker in the Baltic Sea port of Vyborg amid a mass overnight attack, the General Staff reported on March 25.
The attack is the first known successful strike on Russian military ship in the Baltic Sea, almost 1,000 kilometers from Ukrainian territory.
The ship, identified by the General Staff as patrol icebreaker "Pruga," operated by the border guard wing of Russia's FSB secret police, was docked at the city's shipyard when it was hit, the General Staff said. Photos purportedly taken the following day and posted on Telegram show a white ship keeled over on its side among other larger boats docked at the port.
According to the General Staff, the Pruga, belonging to a class of ships built at the shipyard known as Project 23550, is able to work both as an icebreaker and as a regular military warship.According to Russian maritime media outlet Paluba, one such ship costs around 18 billion rubles ($222 million).
Source for this is the Kyiv Independent, it might be just the angle of the photo but while the ship resembles the 23550 it is not an exact match of the other ships in its class which is strange. Also the article misspelled the name of the ship.
