“Their Black Sea flagship Kerch is such a piece of rusty junk that it needs to be scrapped after the crew failed to extinguish a small fire a couple days ago”
Our own USS Miami, a Los Angeles-class nuke sub, was stricken in March from an onboard fire.
The Flagship of the Black Sea Fleet is the Moskva, not the Kerch. Kerch is a sub-chaser/ Kara class from 1968, and is the last of class still in service.
The fire damaged a section at the rear of the ship, not the whole ship. Due to it’s age, though, I would expect it to be stricken.
http://www.vesselfinder.com/news/2479-Submarine-chaser-Kerch-on-fire-in-Sevastopol
The Moskva is a 30 year old relic.
>>I would expect it to be stricken.
We’ll never know. All news of stricken-ness now requires approval of the Ministry of Information with signature of the tSAR.