Zelensky announces assembly for fleet of maritime drones

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski said this in an evening address on Saturday 5 November.

The President said:

Next week we will launch another fundraising direction - we will accumulate funds for a sea drone fleet. I think absolutely everyone understands what it is and what it is for, and I am sure that millions of people will support such a direction in our defence as well. How it works - everyone has already seen it.

Zelenskyy said that the fleet is needed only for protection of the Ukrainian sea area and that Ukraine has no claims to someone else's waters.

We recall that according to a study by analysts of the GeoConfirmed group, drones attacked a frigate of the Admiral Grigorovich class, to which only the Admiral Makarov corresponds in the Black Sea Fleet, in Sevastopol Bay on 29 October.

GeoConfirmed concluded that six to eight drones could have been involved in the attack on the occupier's ships.