Ukraine claims to hit a flagship Moskva in the Black Sea. Russia blames a fire.
to Kyiv. He said weapons from the West have sustained Ukraine’s fight so far and “we cannot rest now.”
Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukraine in the Donbas since 2014, the same year Russia seized Crimea. RussiaBut the loss of the Moskva could delay any new, wide-ranging offensive. Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, then said the ship sank, calling it an event of “colossal significance.” In a video posted by Ukraine’s military, an officer said poor weather and explosions “overturned the cruiser and it began to sink.”
Russia’s Defense Ministry said ammunition on board detonated as a result of a fire, without saying what caused the blaze. It later said the ship was afloat and would be towed in for repairs. It said its “main missile weapons” were not damaged. In addition to the cruise missiles, the warship also had air-defense missiles and other guns.
“They’ve had to kind of choose between two stories: One story is that it was just incompetence, and the other was that they came under attack, and neither is a particular the good outcome for them,” Sullivan told the Economic Club of Washington. , and Russia has lost potentially thousands of fighters. The conflict has killed untold numbers of Ukrainian civilians and forced millions more to flee.
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