A storm and a powerful explosion of ammunition overturned the cruiser and it began to sink.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially reports only one death under at the time of the incident with the destruction of the missile cruiser “Moscow”. At the same time, according to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, only 58 people out of the entire crew of half a thousand survived. The official data of the Russian side is reported by the state agency TASS.
The report also said that 396 crew members were evacuated.
Earlier we reported that, according to the mother of one of the sailors of the sunken ship, the incident killed about 40 people, many wounded and torn off limbs.
The phrase about the “Russian warship” was addressed to “Moscow”
The cult phrase about the “Russian warship” during the attack on Snake Island was addressed to the cruiser Moscow ”.
The information that hit him with Ukrainian Neptune missiles came from the South Operational Command on April 14.
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“… He [the cruiser] was severely damaged. There was a fire. Other units of the ship's group tried to help, but a storm and a powerful explosion of ammunition overturned the cruiser, and it began to sink, “- said in a statement.
Interestingly, the cruiser sank that day, as did the infamous Titanic. We will remind, “Moscow” was built at the Shipyard of 61 Communards in the Ukrainian Nikolaev.
Historical incident
In Conflict Intelligence Team called sinking of the cruiser “historical incident”. Given that the last time this type of ship was sunk in 1982. This is one of the episodes of the war in the Falklands between Great Britain and Argentina: a submarine of the United Kingdom sank a ship of the Argentine Navy.
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