Posted on 04/13/2022 5:12:23 PM PDT by libh8er
RUSSIAN flagship missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ has been destroyed in Ukraine, with mixed reports circulating online as to how it happened.
Multiple Ukrainian government officials have claimed that the 612-foot ‘Moskva’ naval vessel was destroyed by its country’s forces off the coast of the Ukrainian strategic port city of Odessa, located on the Black Sea in southwest Ukraine.
They claimed that a Neptune anti-ship battery caused very serious damage to the Russian ship on Wednesday, April 13.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kyiv, said: “The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser “Moskva” [went] bang, bang, bang [when] something exploded. And the cruiser almost went down.”
Maksym Marchenko, head of the administration in Odessa, reiterated the claims: “It has been confirmed that the missile cruiser “Moskva” today went exactly where it was sent by our border guards on Snake Island! Neptune missiles … caused very serious damage to the Russian ship.”
Odessa has been subjected to Russian attacks since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.
On March 3, Russian warships were spotted near the city and apparently launched airstrikes aimed at the city’s airport.
However, Russian media outlets have denied claims that the cruiser was attacked by Ukrainian forces, although they did confirm that the ‘Moskva’ caught on fire.
“Ammunition detonation on the Moskva missile cruiser was the result of fire,” according to Russia’s Defence Ministry.
The report continued: “The crew has been fully evacuated. The cause of the fire is still being established.”
Russian news outlet Ria noted that the missile cruiser of Project 1164 Moskva is the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. It was built at the Nikolaev shipyard and put into service in 1982. It was originally named Slava.
Now it’s destroyed? Not ‘damaged’? Come on man! We need proof. No satellite photos? No drone images? OJ was set up.
Putin aint gonna be happy about the name. How did this compare to a destroyer class?
Good.
Evacuated the crew? Not a good indicator unless they left
some fire control teams on board.
Do not smoke and spill Vodka in munitions locker!!
“OJ was set up.”
ROTFLMAO!
LOL. And if you do, make sure you use the butt kit and don't toss the butts down the passageway. The vodka is everywhere.
Those little Ukrainians are just amazing fighters, don’t you know!
You are watching the first social media war ever. Govern yourself accordingly
I guess they finally took the Snake Islanders advice....
Well Russia has admitted the ship is lit up.
Love those tough Ukeys...Proud to be of Ukrainian (and Croatian - another tough set who beat the tar out of the Russia’s Serbian butt buddies) descent.
Their aircraft carrier caught fire and burned once so the Russian narrative is at least possible.
Russian media outlets have denied claims that the cruiser was attacked by Ukrainian forces, although they did confirm that the ‘Moskva’ caught on fire.
***Okay, so both sides say the ship was damaged, it would seem quite severely.
Well that is gonna give Putin a royal case of the “red”azz!
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A Russian source is saying the Moskva has sunk and that the explosion was from a Ukrainian Neptun missile strike. Apparently, Ukraine flew a TB2 UCAV to distract the ship while it was targeted by the Neptun. The ship rolled onto its side after the strike.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1514398732611211271
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If that’s all it takes to sink a Russian ship, then their navy is as incompetent as their land forces. They were all staring at the drone and didn’t notice the cruise missiles bearing down on them?
I suspect you’ll see some over the next 24 hours.
It either went down or it didn’t. 24 hours isn’t all that
long to wait to find out.
If it was destroyed, all I can say is wow, whether by attack
or mistake.
Russia admitted to it right away, so it’s pretty clear some-
thing serious was afoot.
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