The guided missile cruiser – the largest ship ever deployed against Ukraine – is seen in photos and videos Monday showing it leaning erratically to its left as dense smoke billows into the sky. The images, which emerged on Monday, were allegedly taken on Thursday, the day after Kiev claimed that the ship struck off Odessa with Neptune rockets, according to the Times of London. A senior US defense official confirmed on Friday that at least one Ukrainian missile had hit Moscow – despite the Kremlin insisting that the 600-foot-long ship, which was carrying nearly 500 sailors, had been destroyed by munitions fire. The first images showing the damaged Moskva cruiser after the attack by Ukraine have begun to appear. Twitter / east2west News Moscow claimed that the ship sank in bad weather while being towed after the ammunition fire. The images of the burning warship, taken from a nearby vessel, were first shared on a Telegram messaging application believed to be linked to Russian security services, the Telegraph reported. The patrol of the Russian navy “Pytliviy” (left) sails near the flagship of the Russian navy with “Moskva” missiles (right) after being damaged by Ukrainian forces. AFP via Getty Images His lifeboats seem to have developed. Russia, meanwhile, released a video Saturday showing members of the convicted ship. About 120 sailors and officers are seen in the silent footage standing in the foreground in uniform. The 26-second video was posted on the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Facebook page. Moscow claims the ship sank in bad weather while being towed after an ammunition fire.VK.com/east2west news On Monday, the mother of a Moscow crew member who served as a cook said she had disappeared. Irina Skrebets told the Russian news agency The Insider that she and her husband went to a hospital in Crimea looking for their son, Yegor Skrebets, and saw about 200 sailors with severe burns, the Telegraph reported. “I saw every child who suffered burns. “I can not describe how hard it was, but I did not find my child,” the anxious mother reportedly said in the report. “There were 200 people (in the hospital) while over 500 people in the cruiser. Where are the others? “ Another woman told Novaya Gazeta that her son had been hospitalized after the sinking and that dozens had been killed. A senior US defense official confirmed on Friday that at least one Ukrainian rocket had hit Moskva.AP Photo, File “My son was crying when he called me to say what he saw. It was scary. “Obviously not everyone was able to live,” the woman told the agency on condition of anonymity, according to the Telegraph. “He said he would never believe he would end up with such minced meat in peacetime,” he added. Meanwhile, a Kremlin propagandist disbanded the Russian navy because it lost the famous ship. Images of the burning warship, taken from a nearby vessel, were first shared on a Telegram messaging app believed to be linked to Russian security services. Satellite image © 2022 Maxar Technologies via AP Vladimir Solovyov, who presents a popular TV show, said he was “outraged” by Moscow’s loss. “When we say yes, it was old, yes, it was renovated, yes, this series of ships had really vulnerabilities, old injuries, I understand,” Solovyov, 58, told the Times of London. “Just explain to me: how the hell did you manage to lose it? Explain to me: how the hell did you end up in that part of the Black Sea? THAT PERIOD? “He said. Images supposedly showing the wrecked Moskva cruiser immediately after the “Ukrainian missile strike”, with missing lifeboats.OSINT Technical “I do not care what happened if it were two Neptune rockets as the Ukrainians say,” Solovyov said. “Since when is a warship afraid of a missile strike when it has equipment that is protected from such strikes?” He added: “What about your fire protection system? “Why did it not work and the ship practically burned from the inside out?” According to Ukrainian reports, the captain of Moskva, Anton Kuprin, died in the sinking, but Russian media reported that it appears in the photos published by the Ministry of Defense on Saturday. Moskva cruiser with lifeboats clearly in place before the ship is attacked by Ukraine.OSINT Technical Ukrainian media also claim that Igor Osipov, the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, was arrested after the sinking, but this has not been confirmed by the Kremlin, according to the Times of London.
