Neptune missile

Russia says the missile cruiser was badly damaged after a fire sparked ammunition to detonate, but it did not give details on the cause of the flames.

"The level of damage is being clarified… "She is on fire," one of the sources said. "As a result of a fire on the Moskva missile cruiser, ammunition detonated," it said in comments reported by the Tass news agency.

Ukraine suggested that Neptune missiles sunk the Moskva. Russia said only that the ship suffered significant damage from a fire.

“The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva cruiser, was indeed attacked by the Neptune anti-ship missiles from the coastline between Odessa and Nikolaev,” it said. Early Thursday, the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, a Moscow-based think tank, said on its Telegram channel that it believed the ship had been sunk and sided with the Ukrainian assessment. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The last independent newsletter in Russia suspended its operations. All of the ship’s approximate 500 crew members were evacuated, it said. Late Wednesday, Odessa state regional administrator Maxim Marchenko said a Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship cruise missile had struck the Moskva, causing serious damage.

The video is mostly pitch black except for a moment where a large flash is seen, thought to be the Neptune missile striking the Russian vessel.

Where is Moskva? It sunk" Moskva was the vessel that became famous at the beginning of the war for telling Ukrainian troops on Snake Island to surrender, only to be told to "f*** off." "The flagship of the Russian navy, Moskva, carried out a negative surfacing operation in the area of that island where it was told to go f*** itself.

A Ukrainian official has claimed the missiles took out Russia's Black Sea flagship, The Moskva, off the coast of Odesa.

Ukraine has claimed that the 610-ft warship, which fired on the Snake Island defenders at the start of the war, bringing the response “Russian warship, go f*** yourself”, was hit by two of its missiles. The Moskva became famous after the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island told it to “go f*** yourself”, when the guided missile cruiser opened fire on them at the start of the war. The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet that fired on the defenders of Snake Island has been badly damaged in what a Ukrainian official said was a cruise missile attack off the coast of Odesa.

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Hours later, Russia’s Defense Ministry said a fire had caused ammunition to explode on the ship, the Moskva, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. It said the crew was evacuated and the cause of the fire was under investigation. Ukraine will be dealing with the consequences of land mines “one civilian leg at a time,” he added, explaining that it can often take years, and possibly decades, to clear all the ordnance. “What was left was the car, with the door still open and a pool of blood,” Ms. Naumenko, 28, said, “and a big emptiness.” A Russian warship in the Black Sea was “seriously damaged,” according to both a Ukrainian military official and Russian state news agencies. He accused Russian soldiers of leaving the explosives in their wake “to kill or maim as many of our people as possible.” The ship, which is more than 600 feet long, first entered service in the early 1980s with the Soviet Navy and carries 16 Vulkan missile launchers with a strike range of more than 400 miles, Russian news agencies have reported. Russian forces are on the verge of taking the strategic port city of Mariupol, which would pave the way for the creation of a “land bridge” between Russian territory and the occupied Crimean Peninsula. The report said that up to 1.7 billion people — a third of whom are already living in poverty — now face food, energy and finance disruptions. The head of Odesa’s military forces, Maxim Marchenko, said on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had struck the ship with anti-ship Neptune missiles. The senior Ukrainian official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe an active military engagement, said that it was the first time the Ukrainian-developed Neptune missile had been used in the war. It was an integral part of the Russian advance in this war. “Ukraine is a crime scene,” the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said after visiting Bucha, outside Kyiv, where the authorities are working to exhume bodies from communal graves.

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Moskva was deployed in the Black Sea in 2008 during the Russian invasion of Georgia. Moskva was also responsible for blockading the Ukrainian fleet in Donuzlav lake in 2014 during the Crimean crisis. After six years of research and development, the missile was inducted into the Ukrainian Navy in March 2021. Decommissioned in 1990, it was reinstated as Moskva by the Russian Navy in 2000. After Russia’s conquest of the Crimea in 2014, Ukraine rushed to develop anti-ship missiles to offset any sea and amphibious attacks from Russia across its coastline. There is also no clarity regarding the number of crew members who were aboard the cruiser.

The Neptune is based on the Soviet-era Zvezda Kh-35 anti-ship missile, but it comes with improved electronics and a better operational range.

In 2019, the Ukrainian military completed the development of the Neptune and ordered the first batches. At over 5 meters, the Neptune carries a 320-pound High Explosive Fragmentation (HE-FRAG) warhead that can sink vessels up to 5,000 tonnes, for example, destroyers and frigates. However, the fact that it has its own missile launch tubes lying on the side of the vessel makes it vulnerable to an enemy strike. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that there was an ammunition explosion on the ship that damaged it badly. The latest victim seems to be the Russian Navy missile cruiser Moskva, which was hit by Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles on Wednesday night. As of Thursday morning, the fate of the vessel is unknown, with conflicting reports coming out of both sides.

The 12500-tonne flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet was hit by two Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles, per Maksym Marchenko, Governor of Odesa Oblast.

"This will be Ukraine’s missile shield in the sea," he added. The RK-360MT Neptunes are mobile anti-ship cruise missiles with a range of more than 186 miles. Earlier, Ukrainian news sources said that Ukraine's Navy used Neptune anti-ship missile to target the Moskva. Either way, excellent!— John Lee (@koreanforeigner) pic.twitter.com/ZV5QU1VgkF April 13, 2022 Meanwhile, Ukrainian sources told Sky News that the flagship was hit by anti-ship missiles fired from about 25 nautical miles from Snake Island. Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, said in a YouTube broadcast that the vessel was “burning strongly” after “a surprise happened," adding “with this stormy sea, it is unknown whether they will be able to receive help." The 'Moskva' guided-missile cruiser gained notoriety after firing at Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island who told it to "go f*** yourself" at the start of the war.

Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the vessel with missiles, while Russia acknowledged a fire aboard the Moskva but no attack.

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Loss of ship is major blow to Russian prestige seven weeks into war that already is widely seen as historic blunder.