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. This is despite Ukraine not having a functional navy of its own.
The UK's defense minister said on Sunday, after Ukraine's first updates about the attack, that the Black Sea Fleet was " functionally inactive ."
"Putin's continued illegal occupation of Ukraine is exacting a massive cost on Russia's Black Sea Fleet which is now functionally inactive," Grant Shapps wrote, adding: "Russia has sailed the Black Sea since 1783 but is now forced to constrain it's fleet to port. And even there Putin's ships are sinking!"
Ukraine has used missiles, drones, and commando raids to harass ships at Sevastopol, Russia's major Black Sea port in Crimea.
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