Russia's Konstantin Olshansky in the bay of Donuzlav, Crimea, in March 2014.AP Photo/Pavel GolovkinUkraine revised its tally of Russian ships it said were damaged in strikes over the weekend.It said four Russian ships were hit, with earlier statements mentioning just two.Ukraine has targeted Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which the UK says is now "functionally inactive."Ukraine said its weekend strikes on Russia's Black Sea Fleet were more successful than it previously disclosed, with damage to two additional vessels.Ukraine's navy said on Sunday that it struck two of Russia's large landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov, in occupied Crimea in an attack on Saturday.But in an update on Tuesday, it said it also damaged two other ships, "the spy ship Ivan Khurs and the Konstantin Olshansky large landing ship."Ukraine's defense ministry said a homemade Neptune anti-ship missile was used to strike the Konstantin Olshansky.The ship was seized from Ukraine in 2014 when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula, as Business Insider's Jake Epstein previously reported.A spokesperson for the Ukrainian navy described the ship as "not operational" after the weekend attack, The Moscow Times reported.Business Insider was unable to independently confirm the attacks, and it isn't clear what state the vessels are in.The latest reported strikes come after a slew of Ukrainian attacks on Russia's Black Sea Fleet.The UK said last month that 25% of Russia's vessels in the Black Sea had been sunk, damaged, or destroyed.

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