Russia’s Defense Ministry released a video Saturday claiming dozens of surviving crew members of the Moscow missile cruiser, Russia’s Black Sea flagship, which sank on Thursday in disputed circumstances, but the video “did not answer long-standing questions about “The fate of the ship and its more than 500 employees,” The New York Times reported on Sunday.
Among the unusual aspects of the segment, the Times reported, was that Soloviev highlighted the idea that Ukraine had managed to sink Moscow, one of the largest naval losses anywhere in the world since World War II. Ukraine claims to have hit Moscow with two Nepune anti-ship missiles. Russia said it was damaged by fire and sank in a stormy sea.
Photos that appear to show damaged Moscow being towed before sinking surfaced online on Sunday.
The United States estimates that Ukraine has hit Moscow with “two Neptunes,” a senior Pentagon official said on Friday, calling it a “big blow” to Moscow. A day earlier, a Pentagon spokesman said that after Moscow’s damage, four or five Russian ships “other Black Sea ships operating near it or in the northern Black Sea have moved further south,” far from Ukraine. .
Russia’s retreat from Ukraine’s coastline suggests it sees the threat as real, Japan’s Nikkei of Istanbul said, but “if Russia wants to send more ships to the Black Sea to replace Moscow or withdraw its Black Sea fleet to the Mediterranean,” it must persuade Turkey to open the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. “Turkey has closed both straits to warships, with the exception of those returning to their ports after the Russian invasion, under the 1936 Montreux Convention.
“If Putin’s plans still include a landing attack on Odessa or require a significant naval presence to maintain pressure on Ukraine, he will have to bring additional ships to the Black Sea, and this will not happen,” Soner Kagaptai, a Turkish expert in The Washington Institute for Middle East Policy, says Nikkei. “Turkey will have to violate Montreux, which it will never do to allow additional naval ships to enter. An unidentified Turkish official agreed with this assessment.
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The sister ships of sunken Moscow, the other Varyag Glory and Marshal Ustinov cruisers, are currently operating in the Eastern Mediterranean, and if Moscow nominates one of them as its new Black Sea flagship, it will force Turkey to do so. difficult choice, notes the Turkish minute. “Marshal Ustinov is connected with the Northern Fleet, and Varyag is the flagship of the Pacific Fleet.”
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