[Yahoo] Within 24 hours, Russia’s TASS state news agency reported two separate attacks by Ukrainian kamikaze drone boats on Russian vessels in the Black Sea.The report alleged that early in the morning of August 1, Russian patrol boats Vasily Bykov and Sergey Kotov were escorting a civilian Russian vessel over 210 miles southwest of the Crimean port of Sevastopol when they came under attack from three Ukrainian drone boats (or USVs). Supposedly, fire from the "standard armament" of the Russian patrol boats destroyed the USVs before they could ram Russian ships with their explosive payload.
However, the same day, Ukraine released what they claimed were intercepted radio communications between Russian sailors and a Ka-29 helicopter suggesting that the August 1 attack had not gone as swimmingly as TASS claimed.