The Moskva was one of the Russian Navy’s most important warships and its sinking represented a massive blow to Moscow’s military, which at the time was struggling against Ukrainian resistance ...

In April 2022, Ukraine sank the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet ... the first time Russian territory was occupied by an invader since World War II. It dealt a humiliating blow to the ...

In April, 2022, Ukraine’s Operational Command South claimed the Moskva had begun to sink after it was hit by Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles.

How did Ukraine, a nation without a navy, sink Russia’s most powerful warship? This gripping breakdown unpacks the historic destruction of the Moskva a $750M Russian missile cruiser by Ukrainian ...

This includes the sinking of the Black Sea Fleet flagship, Slava-Class cruiser ‘MOSKVA’, which had previously been described as a cutting-edge air defence platform.” The loss of Moskva, which was the ...

April 14, 2022: Sinking of the Moskva. The flagship of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet, named after the Russian capital, was sunk by the AFU’s Neptune missiles on April 14. Ukrainian officials ...

According to Professor Evan Mawdsley – a leading historian specializing in Russian and World War II history – the last time a "large Russian ship" was sunk was 81 years ago off the coast of Crimea by ...

This has happened before: When the Japanese ran out of ways to stop the steady approach of the U.S. Navy in World War II, they resorted to sending pilots in planes loaded with explosives directly ...

On that first day, February 24, 2022, the flagship of the Russian fleet, a gigantic missile cruiser called the Moskva, appeared near the shore of Snake Island in the Black Sea, a tiny fleck of ...

But at approximately 1 a.m. on April 14, 2022, the Ukrainians managed to pinpoint the Moskva’s location via a combination of radar and intelligence information shared by the U.S.

First victory: Sinking the Moskva. From the invasion’s beginning in late February 2022, the Moskva, a guided-missile cruiser that served as the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, played a key role ...

Nearly two months later, on April 13, as the Moskva steamed east of Snake Island, it was hit by what turned out to be two land-launched Neptune anti-ship missiles. The ship sank less than a day later.