Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet with missiles and it sunk, while Russia said it was badly damaged by a fire but still afloat.
FILE IMAGE - A picture taken on Sept. 10, 2008, shows the Moskva, missile cruiser flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, entering Sevastopol bay.
The ship can carry 16 long-range cruise missiles, and its removal from combat would greatly reduce Russia’s firepower in the Black Sea. Regardless of the extent of the damage, any attack would represent a major blow to Russian prestige seven weeks into a war that is already widely seen as a historic blunder.
The news of the flagship's damage overshadowed Russian claims of advances in the southern port city of Mariupol, where they have been battling the Ukrainians since the early days of the invasion in some of the heaviest fighting of the war — at a horrific cost to civilians. Maksym Marchenko, the governor of the Odesa region, across the Black Sea to the northwest of Sevastopol, said the Ukrainians struck the ship with two Neptune missiles and caused "serious damage."
Russia’s Defense Ministry said ammunition on board detonated as a result of a fire, without saying what caused the blaze. It later said the ship was afloat and would be towed in for repairs. It said its "main missile weapons" were not damaged. In addition to the cruise missiles, the warship also had air-defense missiles and other guns.
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