“History will remember the reaction of the defenders. Border guard Roman Hrybov famously replied to demands to surrender “Russian warship, go F*** yourself!“. The warship sitting off the island was none other than Moskva, the most powerful warship in the Black Sea.”
Still pushing that story?
Moskva meet Davy Jones’ locker! KGB Putin will say it transformed into a secret submarine.
Clickbait blog calling itself “Naval News”.
Like with the Spanish Civil War, (an earlier superpower proxy war), a lot of new weapons are being tested in wartime conditions.
Those cheering the demise of the Moskva should consider the future survivability of our own CVN battle groups within a thousand or more miles of China, just for example. We might wake up to the news that one has been hit by Chinese missiles and is on fire in the not distant future. (Or hit by Russian or Iranian missiles, in slightly different circumstances.)
For students of history, here was another major naval paradigm shift that probably fewer than one in 100 has ever heard of:
“The WW2 Sinking of Two Mighty Warships – HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse”