“I do wonder why they think it’s better to admit incompetence than to admit the enemy sank a ship.”
Putin is purging leadership right now and this would support purging the Russian navy.
Apparently those Russian guys went to the same doubletalk school our own Austin/Millie gobbledeetwins went to. Takes a special percentage of “brass” to just blow smoke immediately instead of either “no comment” or say whatchoo know.