The Russian cruiser Moskva was hit by two Ukrainian missiles before it sank in the Black Sea, a US Defense Department official said on Friday, calling the incident a “hard blow” for Russia.
“We estimate that [o navio] was hit by two [mísseis] Neptunes,” the Pentagon official, who requested anonymity, told reporters. With this statement, the source refutes the Moscow version, which guarantees that the vessel suffered “serious damage” because of a fire and then sank.
However, the American official did not confirm the version that the Ukrainian army had distracted the Moskva’s defense with a drone on one side of the boat, while the Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles hit it from the other side.
“We believe there were casualties, but it is difficult to know how many,” he said, adding that the United States is aware that the survivors were rescued by other Russian ships in the region.
Russia, which does not officially recognize that the Moskva sank as a result of a Ukrainian attack, announced that the crew had been withdrawn.
“Symbolically, it’s a heavy blow,” added the source. But above all, the loss of Moskva, one of the three Slava-class cruisers belonging to Russia, “creates a void in military capabilities” in southern Ukraine, where President Vladimir Putin has decided to concentrate his operations and operations from now on. next offensive.
Under the Montreux Convention, “Turkey does not authorize warships to enter the Black Sea, and [os russos] they will not be able to replace it with another Slava class ship”, he explained.
Ankara controls access to the Black Sea through the Treaty of Montreux, signed in 1936, which guarantees free movement in the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, but allows military vessels to be blocked in that region in the event of war, unless the vessels have to return to their bases.
The sinking of the Moskva could lead the Russian navy to be more prudent in the war in Ukraine, opined the Pentagon official.
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