Russian hackers identify ships involved in attack on Crimea bridge

Moscow, Jul 20 (Prensa Latina) Russian hackers said they identified two ships that may have been involved in the recent Ukrainian attack with marine drones against the Kerch Strait bridge, in eastern Crimea.

July 20, 2023
10:07

The RaHDIt (Russian angry Hackers Did it) group published “routes of the oil tankers Beks Loyal and Khudayar Yusifzade, under the flags of the Marshall Islands and Liberia, respectively, and which, most likely, launched sea drones laden with explosives.”

Several days before the attack, both ships remained adrift, one off the Russian Black Sea coast, about 100 kilometers from Novorossiysk, and the other, further south, but both met up later on the high seas.

RaHDIt members suspect that this was the moment when maritime drones were moved from one tanker to another. They also did not rule out the involvement of a third ship, which would have been controlling the drones while anchored somewhere with a direct view of the bridge.

In addition, the RaHDIt group revealed the personal data of about 1,700 agents of the Ukrainian Security Service, 2,000 members of the Ukrainian army and volunteers from the UA Cats Division, an organization that raises funds for the purchase of maritime drones for Ukraine.

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