If their Northern Fleet’s flagship is a destroyer, well, that’s just sad.
The US Seventh Fleet's command ship looks like a transport freighter that carries around a bunch of antennae.
Heck, I think it IS a freighter carrying around antennae.
Probably just the ‘flagship’ of the battlegroup. This article reads like a bad translation. 250 marines embarked? Uh, I think they mean sailors? But a lot of translators use the term ‘marines’ when that has a very specific definition in the English language.
My young cousin got a good look at the Baltic Fleet in port a couple of years ago during a Fleet visit and, well, that's what he said.