Instead of criticizing a source, my request is for you guys to provide sources that both sides can agree on as relatively reliable when it comes to facts.
Most of the Putinista crowd was going with the “Moskva wasn’t hit by antiship missiles, it was Russian incompetence which sank it” until recently. The thing to keep in mind was that Russia admitted it sank.
Some of the corollary info was very telling, such as the other ships in the area leaving due to being in range of antiship missiles.
I have something to compare it too and the technical expertise/experience in the subject matter which is why we criticize it. That ship was hit and I believe from all that have read and seen reported that it was destroyed by a secondary explosion of the liquid propellent in the Vulkan AS missiles because there must have been a fire source which was not properly put out.
This would be in a similar fashion that the Japanese air craft carrier Taiho was destroyed in The Battle of the Philippine Sea in 1944. The carrier sustained damage in a torpedo attack from the US sub Albacore. The damage was successfully controlled from a operational standpoint (as they thought)and the ship resumed action. They had a aviation fuel leak caused by the torpedo attack which showed up when they resumed action. The ventilation system was turned on to dissipate the fumes but in turn caused a massive exlplosion which led to the scuttling of the Taiho.