Ukraine may have found new ships to target in its quest to hobble Russia's Black Sea Fleet

• A Ukrainian partisan group, Atesh, said it found two Russian ships hiding in Crimea.

• Ukraine has damaged much of Russia's fleet there despite having no real navy itself.

• The group said it gave Ukraine its information, and there was "no doubt" more ships would sink soon.

Ukraine may have more discovered new targets in its quest to take down Russia's once formidable Black Sea Fleet.

Ukrainian partisans said they'd found two Russian Project 775 landing ships near the city of Sevastopol in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.

The Atesh group, a resistance movement of Ukrainians and Tatars in Crimea, says it constantly monitors the coast in Crimea, particularly in Sevastopol.

It identified one of the ships as the Konstantin Olshansky, which Russia captured from Ukraine in 2014.

Russian forces, it said, had hidden the ships amid cranes and port infrastructure, hoping to save them.

Atesh said it passed its information to Ukraine's military, and "there is no doubt that soon more of the enemy's ships will sink," according to a translation by the Kyiv Post.

It shared what it said were images of the ships, showing them in a small bay near trees and infrastructure.

Business Insider couldn't independently verify the group's claims.

But Ukraine has been hugely successful at targeting Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, despite Ukraine not having any warships itself.

Using sea drones and missiles, Ukraine has hammered much of the fleet. Ukraine's military said earlier this year that it had destroyed one-third of it, and the UK's Ministry of Defence said in March that the fleet was "functionally inactive."

Ukraine said last month that Russia had pulled its last Black Sea Fleet patrol ship out from Crimea.

Ukraine's attacks have included one that damaged the Konstantin Olshansky, according to Ukrainian officials.

The Atesh group previously said it had helped Ukraine attack Russia's ships.

It said last year that it got information from Russian commanders who were frustrated at not being paid by their military, which Ukraine then used to plan a major attack on the Black Sea Fleet.

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