Posted on 04/13/2022 5:28:09 PM PDT by Widget Jr
Maksym Marchenko, the head of the Odesa regional military administration, announced this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.
"It has been confirmed that the missile cruiser Moskva went today exactly where it was sent by our border guards on Snake Island. The Neptune missiles guarding the Black Sea caused very serious damage to the Russian ship," Marchenko said.
The cruiser Moskva is part of the 30th Surface Ship Division of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Related to this, Russia says ammo aboard famed warship detonated (BBC).
"Ammunition stockpiles aboard a Russian ship that was famously defied by Ukrainian troops early in the war have detonated, according to a statement from the Russian defence ministry.
Either by Ukraine's anti-ship missiles (good) or by accident (even better), another bad day for the Russian Navy.
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
There will come the day when people realize that the Ukies are a basket of snakes and will wish the Russians prevailed. Neither one of them is worth one drop of American blood or treasure, though.
I hope this is true it would be great, but I recall 3 weeks they claim to have sunk the same ship that attacked that island. Perhaps this is a different ship, I don't know. Perhaps its the same ship and they damaged it the first time and scored a direct hit this time.
I believe nothing at this point.
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The day will come when Russia will wish it never allowed
Putin to pull this out of his -—!
There will come the day when people realize that the Ukies are a basket of snakes and will wish the Russians prevailed.
During the Cold War the enemy of the West wasn't the Russian people. It was the Nomenclatura. Of whom the Russian people were just as much victims as were the Poles or the Czechs.
I'm not sure if it's appropriate to refer to Putin and his thugs by the same name, but they're no better, and arguably worse.
What we wish is for the Russian people to prevail. And that requires freeing themselves from strongmen like Putin.
Liberated and denazified!
I like that basket of snakes part. The Rooskies should GTFO or be fatally bitten. This works for me.
Have you ever been to Ukraine? It is a beautiful country with beautiful people. Have you ever been to Washington, DC?
Andrei, you've lost another cruiser?
#2. More likely, the drone was used for targeting, possibly for decoying (jamming or dropping chaff), then Russian antimissile defenses were saturated by multiple missiles. If the ship really was sunk, then the Russian Navy’s history of poor damage control was a factor in her loss.
Ship’s complement 510 sailors. If in fact ship rolled, rescue seems somewhat complicated.
“There will come the day when people realize that the Ukies are a basket of snakes...”
It seems to me that it is the “snakes” who attacked another nation on February 24th. The snakes may be winning, but their victims are giving them a hell of a battle. I’m rooting for the underdog!!
No true American should ever wish that the Russian commies prevail.
Ukraine for Ukrainians!
Unless that American is conservativer-than-thou and want to virtue signal that he is against something Biden is for.
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