The Pentagon considers the loss of the Moskva cruiser to be “a blow” for the Russian fleet – BFMTV

The ship was a “key element in their efforts to establish naval dominance in the Black Sea,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday. which sank on Thursday, is “a major blow” to the Russian fleet in the region, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday. key element of their efforts to establish naval dominance in the Black Sea”, added the American spokesperson on the CNN channel. -missiles 186 meters long had been “severely damaged” by a fire which caused the explosion of ammunition and that its crew of more than 500 men had to be evacuated.The Ukrainian governor of the Odessa region, Maxim Marchenko , said for his part that the armed forces of ukra The ships had hit the Moskva with Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles, inflicting “significant damage”. on the Sea of ​​Azov, and that of a fuel depot in Belgorod, Russia, which the Russians attributed to a Ukrainian helicopter attack carried out 40 km into enemy territory. Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych quipped on the fact that the Moskva was the famous “Russian military ship” which, summoning to surrender at the beginning of the war to a handful of Ukrainian soldiers stationed on a small island in the Black Sea, was answered by radio: ” Russian military ship, fuck you!”