Number Of Ships At Putin's Naval Parade Falls To Historic Low

The losses in Ukraine are to blame.

In 2024, the Main Naval Parade in honor of Navy Day, which was hosted personally by Vladimir Putin, was the most modest in the history of the event. The ceremonial event in St. Petersburg on July 28 was attended by 20 ships and boats, one submarine and four sailing vessels. In total, 25 ships. At the same time, for the first time in 8 years, the naval part of the parade in Kronstadt was canceled.

Not a single ship, the destruction or damage of which was previously reported by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, took part in the parade, the BBC noted. Only two ships of the Black Sea Fleet were present at the event in the Northern capital — the corvette Mercury, which has been performing tasks at the Russian base in Tartus since 2024, and the frigate Admiral Grigorovich, the publication notes.

For comparison, in 2023, 45 ships participated in the Main Naval Parade in honor of the Navy Day in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. More than 40 ships participated in the parade in 2022. In 2021, over 50.

According to the Oryx monitoring project, after the start of a full-scale war, Ukraine, which has no navy at all, was able to sink or damage 26 ships and submarines of the Black Sea Fleet using missiles and naval drones, which is a third of the Black Sea Fleet. This allowed Kyiv to reduce the threat of amphibious operations and the use of Russian ships to shell Ukrainian territory, as well as clear the Black Sea waters for the export of its agricultural products. In particular, the ships Caesar Kunikov, Novocherkassk, Saratov, Olenegorsky Gornyak and Minsk, as well as the Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva and the Rostov-on-Don submarine were damaged or destroyed. In March, the newest patrol ship Sergei Kotov was sunk.

In addition, in September 2023, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol. In May, ATACMS missiles destroyed the last missile ship of the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, the Cyclone. The successful actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces forced Russia to withdraw the ships of the Black Sea Fleet from the Crimea, where they had been based for 240 years, and it now has to patrol the Black Sea with submarines.

Russian ships began conducting training activities in the Sea of Azov, since the command of the Russian Armed Forces considers it less dangerous than the Black Sea.

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