The infrared video, apparently filmed by one or more Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones, shows one of the Raptor boats moving backwards when it receives a direct hit and disintegrates it. The other tries to accelerate away when he disappears into a flame followed by a plume of smoke. “Two Russian Raptor vessels were destroyed this morning near Snake Island,” General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, said on Facebook. “Bayraktar is working.” Snake Island, where Ukrainian troops defiantly rejected the request of the Russian cruiser Moskva to surrender Ukrainian border guards stationed on the island in February told the Russian cruiser Moskva “Russian warship, go alone” when he ordered them to surrender. Russia
