Photo link here: https://twitter.com/BormanIke/status/1515816220393713665/photo/1
Ukrainian claims of a missile strike are obviously a lie. We all know the Russians retaliated against Ukraine because of stormy weather.
This was hit near where I expected it to be based upon the reports. It likely suffered a catastrophic explosion later while it was getting towed near the main armament.
I want the pic of Slick Willie’s navy.
What is “contested”? Even Russia has verified the ship sunk. The only date is whether it was the result of a Ukrainian attack, or if it was some sort of accident.
Russia claims it was a fire onboard.
Russia began towing the ship - and it continued to take on water and sank/capsized and dropped.
There was a Ukrainian attack on the ship.
Russia has said that they would ratchet up the air attacks in retribution for the sinking of this ship...
So - Putin denied Ukraine hit it - while simultaneously using the sinking as an excuse for ratcheting up indiscriminate air attacks on several Ukrainian cities.
The Russians can’t even keep their own narrative straight. I’m pretty sure that tells us a great deal about the real story.
Looks like it split apart because of rust. What a dump. The Russian navy is trash.
And now it’s a reef for the fish
Smoke is not billowing from the superstructure: It’s billowing from the stacks, indicating a massive fire below decks.
Not exactly what I’d expect from a missile impact, across the board.
The Neptune missles would hit the center structure and CIC bridge area. She carries 16 large cursie missiles launched from tubes with 8 on each side. The ship is listing to port and 4 of the missiles tubes on the port side have been blown away. Likely one or as many as four of those large warheads exploded. There is video showing the large explosion on the port side. This was no fire that caused those missiles to detonate. There was a fire clrealy that swept through the ship after being hit.
