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WASHINGTON – A Russian guided-missile cruiser said to be one of the biggest Russian warship, Moskva has sunk on the Black Sea.
Although it is not clear what was responsible for fate of the warship, the Russia defense ministry said it sank due to explosion caused by ammunition in the ship.
But the Ukraine army has said Moskva sank when it was hit by two cruise missile it fired on the sheep. Reports by official of the Department of Defence in the United States said theRussian guided-missile cruiser Moskva is believed to have experienced an onboard explosion with resulting fire damage.
“We do believe that has experienced significant damage. Our assessment is that still appears to be battling a fire onboard. But we do not know the extent of the damage. We don’t know anything about casualties to crew. And we cannot definitively say at this point what caused that damage,” the official said.
Moskva, according to the DoD official ship is moving east with an assumption that the cruiser is heading to Sebastopol, Ukraine, for repairs, the official said.
The official noted that at the time of the explosion, it was about 60 nautical miles south of Odesa, Ukraine and that a handful of ships operating in the northern Black Sea have moved south in the wake of the damage to the Moskva, the official said.
It added that there are speculation the damage was caused by a missile strike.
“There’s lots of things on a surface combatant that are combustible … that can cause explosions and cause fires,” the official said.
The Moskva has munitions, artillery rounds, missiles, a propulsion plant and plenty of fuel onboard – any of which could explode for any number of reasons, the official said. “Any sailor will tell you, especially a sailor who served on a surface combatant, on any given day that the risk of a fire and explosion is real. And that’s why takes damage control and fire prevention so seriously. On every U.S. Navy ship, we consider every sailor a firefighter for good reason,” the official said.
The Moskva was commissioned in 1983 as the Slava and renamed the Moskva in 2000. It measures about 612 feet in length with a beam, or width, of about 68 feet.
