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A RUSSIAN landing ship packed with military equipment has been blown up in Ukraine after a boastful Kremlin film unwittingly revealed its whereabouts.
A Ukrainian ballistic missile struck the 370ft Alligator-class Orsk vessel, causing huge explosions in the port of Berdyansk.
As flames broke out on board the Orsk, two other Russian ships also damaged in the strike - one apparently ablaze - hastily put to sea.
The attack, a major morale boost for the Ukrainians, was caught on film and beamed around the world.
Berdyansk - 50 miles south-west of the besieged city of Mariupol - has been under Russian control since February 27. Earlier this week, a Moscow
TV channel broadcast images of supplies and armoured vehicles being unloaded from the Orsk.
But the propaganda was spotted by Ukrainian forces and at 7am yesterday, an OTR-21 Tochka missile struck the Orsk, which has a displacement of 4,000 tons when fully loaded.