Satellite images of sunken Russian barges, destruction

Satellite pictures of Snake Issland in Ukraine released on Friday seemed to show a group of sunken Russian vessels off an island in the Black Sea Friday.

Ukrainian officials said their forces had destroyed another Russian ship, though there was no confirmation from Russia and no casualties were reported.

The Vsevolod Bobrov logistics ship was badly damaged but not thought to have sunk when it was struck while trying to deliver an anti-aircraft system to Snake Island, said Oleksiy Arestovych, an advisor to the Ukrainian president.

Images collected by satellites from Maxar Technologies showed a barge, serna class landing craft and sunken serna craft off the coast of the island.

Further Maxar images of Snake Island showed destroyed buildings, probable Pantsir air defense vehicles and a destroyed helicopter.

In April, the Ukrainian military sank the Moskva cruiser, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, and in March it destroyed the landing ship Saratov.

Image: AP