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Two years ago, the cruiser “Moskva” transferred to the submarine fleet
On April 13, 2022, at 18.52, the flagship was hit by two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the damaged ship sank on April 14 while being towed in stormy conditions.
True, how “strong” the “storm” was then is shown by the last photos of the “Moscow” taken before the sinking – the sea was perfectly smooth, but the former flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was smoking literally like the last time.
When we remember the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, they say that the Russians lost their flagships only twice during the war at sea – during the Battle of Tsushima in 1904 and in April 2022. But the “flagship” ships can also include the battleship of the Baltic Fleet “Marat” from World War II, sunk during the Luftwaffe raid on Kronstadt in 1941.
On the other hand, “Moskva” is so far the only Russian flagship destroyed by an enemy with a potential much smaller, the attack on which was carried out entirely from a coastal missile launcher.
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