While the Russia-Ukraine war continues, important developments continue to occur in the Black Sea. It was announced by Russia that the Russian cruise ship Moscow, which Ukraine claimed to have hit with a Neptune missile, sank. The reason for the explosion in Moscow, the flagship of the Black Sea fleet, which Russia deployed 60-65 nautical miles south of Oddessa, has been revealed.
“WE CONFIRM THAT THE UKRAINE SHOOTED”
A senior Pentagon official made a statement to AA correspondent, “We confirm that the Ukrainians hit the Russian cruiser with two Neptune missiles.” used the phrase.
The official did not provide any other details.
A senior official from the Pentagon announced the previous day that Russia had withdrawn its ships from the north of the Black Sea further south after the explosion on the Moscow cruiser.
RUSSIA ANNOUNCED IT SINKED
In the statement made by the Russian Ministry of Defense, it was stated that the Moscow cruiser, which was reported to have experienced an ammunition explosion, sank while towing to the port of destination. The ship sank in stormy sea conditions. As previously reported, the cruiser’s crew was evacuated to the Black Sea fleet ships in the area.
In the previous statement made by the Russian Ministry of Defense, “The ammunition on the Moscow cruiser exploded as a result of the fire. The ship was seriously damaged. All the crew were evacuated. The cause of the fire is being investigated.”
USA WAS NOT SURE WHAT WAS ON BOARD
Spokesperson for the US Department of Defense (Pentagon), John Kirby, stated that they evaluated at least one explosion on the Russian cruiser ship and that it was a fairly large explosion that caused great damage to the ship. Now we think it’s going more eastward. “We think it will probably dock in Sevastopol for repairs, but we don’t know exactly what caused it (the explosion),” he said.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, on the other hand, said in a statement that Moscow had to admit that Russia had suffered severe damage to the ship. “They had to choose between two stories. The first story is that it was just incompetence, the other is that they were hacked. It’s not a good outcome for either of them,” he said.
UKRAINE ANNOUNCED IT HAS ATTACKED THE MOSCOW CRUSHER
Aleksey Arestovich, Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine, said in a statement, “The ship with a crew of 510, called Moscow, besieging Snake Island, was hit.”
Odessa Governor Maksim Marchenko said, “The ship named Moscow went to the place where our soldiers on the Snake Island were expelled. The rockets named Neptune caused heavy damage to the Russian ship.”
THE MOSCOW CRUISER WAS A TOPIC IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE ATTACKS
The cruiser Moscow came to the fore when it was used in the attack on the Snake Island off the Danube Delta in the Black Sea, in the first days of Russia’s attack on Ukraine on February 24. While the Ukrainian soldiers on the island did not surrender, he told the Russian army “Go to hell”.
Moscow, the 186-metre-long flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, entered service in the early 1980s. When she was the lead ship of the Soviet navy’s Project 1164 Atlant class, she was first called the Slava she. But later her name was changed to “Moscow” she. The battleship’s main armament is known as the P-1000 Vulcan anti-ship missiles. The cruiser, which became the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet in 2000, played a key role in Russia’s military operation in Syria in 2015.
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