{"id":121302,"date":"2022-06-21T09:07:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=121302"},"modified":"2022-06-21T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:07:32","slug":"ukraine-sinks-russian-rescue-ship-on-black-sea-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=121302","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine SINKS Russian Rescue Ship on Black Sea (Photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RussianTug-Sunk-By-Ukraine_large-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-121303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RussianTug-Sunk-By-Ukraine_large-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RussianTug-Sunk-By-Ukraine_large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RussianTug-Sunk-By-Ukraine_large-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RussianTug-Sunk-By-Ukraine_large.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hal Turner Radio Show<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Black Sea Fleet Rescue Tug &#8220;Vasily Bekh&#8221; has been hit by Ukrainian-launched missiles and SUNK.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was struck by two Harpoon anti ship missiles, a U.S. produced weapons system, manufactured by McDonnell Douglas.   <\/p>\n<p>The 187 foot long ship sank within 18 seconds of being hit.<\/p>\n<p>At least ten (10) Russian sailors are dead, 23 others are wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Video, below, was taken by a Bayraktar Drone operated by the Ukraine military, shows the two missiles striking from the left, and the ship going under almost immediately after the explosions:<\/p>\n<p> The assault on the Vasily Bekh Rescue tugboat was first announced on the official Twitter account of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, and a few minutes later a video showing the assault was posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/en\/news-page\/world\/ukraine-sinks-russian-rescue-ship-on-black-sea\">https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/en\/news-page\/world\/ukraine-sinks-russian-rescue-ship-on-black-sea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}