Black navy war flagship8/28/2023 ![]() (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images) Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images A workshop and an administrative building at the Vizar plant were seriously damaged. A Ukrainian military factory outside Kyiv that produced missiles allegedly used to hit Russia's Moskva warship was partly destroyed by overnight Russian strikes, an AFP journalist at the scene saw on April 15. Women clean in a building with a collapsed facade at the Vizar company military-industrial complex, after the site was hit by overnight Russian strikes, in the town of Vyshneve, southwestern suburbs of Kyiv, on April 15, 2022. Russia has insisted the reason for the sinking was a fire, but the US on Friday confirmed Ukraine’s account, with a senior defense official saying that the US believes that two Ukrainian Neptune missiles hit the Russian warship. Moscow has denied the Ukrainian version of events – that the Moskva sunk after being struck by Ukrainian missiles – but it admitted the ship went down. Ukraine and Russia have provided conflicting accounts of what happened during Thursday’s incident in the Black Sea. ![]() The images show the Moskva listing to one side, with black holes from possible missile puncture marks, and significant scarring at and just above the waterline on the port (left) side in the middle of the vessel.Ī large plume of black smoke can be seen billowing upwards, partly obscuring the front of the stricken ship.Īnalysts who spoke to CNN confirmed that the warship in the images looked like the Moskva, a Slava Class guided-missile destroyer and the flagship of Russian’s Black Sea fleet. The sinking of the Black Sea fleet flagship was the biggest wartime loss of a naval ship in 40 years – and a huge embarrassment for Russia. New photos and a short video clip emerged early Monday on social media showing Russia’s guided-missile cruiser, the Moskva, badly damaged and on fire in the hours before the ship sank in the Black Sea on Thursday. ![]()
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