 74 sailors were killed and 27 wounded undestroyed Novosekask ship. Activists from the cyber resistance movement of Ukraine have obtained a letter verifying that 74 Russian soldiers were killed and 27 wounded on the Novosekask, the Russian landing ship that Ukrainian forces destroyed on the 26th of December. Ukrainian National Resistance Centre said this with reference to the intercepted letter. In the letter, Nikolai Yevmenov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, proposes that mourning should be declared in the city of Novosekask, in connection with the deaths of 74 Russians. The letter was intercepted thanks to access to the mailbox of Ksenia Goncharova, a propagandist from the Nashi TV show, on the Russia One Channel. Novosekask had been destroyed by cruise missiles launched from tactical aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian Air Force. Yuri Inat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, said that the significant explosion observed on the Russian ship indicates that it was not a minor detonation of something there, but rather a detonation of ammunition because a large landing ship is used to transport equipment, weapons and personnel. Russian media reported that at least 19 Russian sailors were injured and 33 missing after the Ukrainian armed forces attacked the landing ship.