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โ€ข 2023๋…„ 12์›” 25์ผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ํ•ด๊ตฐ์˜ Ropucha๊ธ‰ LST(Landing Ship Tank) ๋…ธ๋ณด์ฒด๋ฅด์นด์Šคํฌ(Novocherkassk)๋Š” ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ์ ๋ นํ•œ ํฌ๋ฆผ ๋ฐ˜๋„ ๋‚จ์ชฝ ํ•ด์•ˆ์˜ ํŽ˜์˜ค๋„์‹œ์•ผ(Feodosia) ํ•ญ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ํŒŒ๊ดด๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข ์˜คํ”ˆ์†Œ์Šค ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์„ ๋ฐ•์ด ์ถฉ๋Œํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ํญ๋ฐœ์„ฑ ํ™”๋ฌผ์„ ์šด๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ 2์ฐจ ํญ๋ฐœ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋Š” ์นจ๊ณต ์ดํ›„ ์†์‹คํ•œ LST ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 3์ฒ™์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ๋ผํ† ํ”„ํ˜ธ๋Š” 2022๋…„ 3์›” 24์ผ์— ์นจ๋ชฐํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์Šคํฌํ˜ธ๋Š” 2023๋…„ 9์›” 13์ผ ๋“œ๋ผ์ด ๋„ํฌ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŒŒ๊ดด๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ LST 2๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ํ™•์‹คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€ข ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋Š” ์นจ๊ณต ์ค‘์— LST ๋ถ€๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ƒ๋ฅ™ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐœ์‹œํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์› ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ „์Ÿ์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ํ‘ํ•ด์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ ๋ฐ•์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ „์Ÿ์ด ๊ธธ์–ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๊ตฐํ•จ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜ ์ง€์›์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ด๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์•„์™€ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์•„ ๋Œ€๊ต์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ทจ์•ฝํ•œ ๋„๋กœ์™€ ์ฒ ๋„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

++On 25 December 2023, the Russian Navy's Ropucha class Landing Ship Tank (LST) Novocherkassk was completely destroyed following a Ukrainian strike while alongside at the port of Feodosia, on the south coast of Russian-occupied Crimea.

++Open source evidence suggests it is highly likely the vessel was carrying explosive cargo when it was hit, causing a large secondary explosion.

The incident takes the number of LSTs Russia has lost since the invasion to three: the Saratov sank on 24 March 2022, while the Minsk was functionally destroyed in dry dock on 13 September 2023. Two additional LSTs have likely been damaged.
++Russia likely planned to use its LST force to launch significant amphibious assaults during the invasion and it doubled the number of these vessels in the Black Sea during the build-up to the war.

As the war has dragged on, the ships have been more commonly employed in providing logistical support.

This is a significant role because it augments the vital and relatively fragile road and rail connection of the Crimea Bridge, which links Crimea to Russia.