![]() ![]() The first known report of a missile hitting the ship was at 20:42, 13 April 2022 Ukrainian time ( EEST, UTC+03:00) with a Facebook post by a Ukrainian volunteer connected to the military: "The cruiser Moskva has just been hit by 2 Neptune missiles. Location of Moskva in Black Sea on 12 April 2022 by satellite imagery Ukrainian account After this, all contact was lost with Snake Island, and the thirteen-member Ukrainian garrison was captured. Moskva hailed the island's garrison over the radio and demanded its surrender, receiving the now-famous reply " Russian warship, go fuck yourself" from its garrison. The ship was later used against the Ukrainian armed forces during the attack on Snake Island, together with the Russian patrol boat Vasily Bykov. ![]() In February 2022, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the guided missile cruiser Moskva, left Sevastopol to participate in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At least 17 of the missing crew members were later declared dead by a court in Sevastopol. Russia said that 396 crew members had been evacuated, with one sailor killed and 27 missing, but there are unverified reports of more casualties. The cruiser is the largest Russian warship to be sunk in wartime since the end of World War II, and the first Russian flagship sunk since Knyaz Suvorov in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Russia reported the ship sank in stormy seas after the fire caused munitions to explode. This claim was later confirmed by the United States Department of Defense. Ukrainian officials stated that their forces damaged the ship with two R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles, and there was a fire. The Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, sank on 14 April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes.Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure. ![]()
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