Mark Solonin, an aviation design engineer, writer and publicist, in his author's program, analyzes the chronology of the death of the Moskva missile cruiser. Recall that the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, the Moskva missile cruiser, sank on April 14, 2022, after a strike made on April 13, 2022 by the Neptune missile system of the Ukrainian Naval Forces. According to the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the cruiser sank as a result of a fire, which in turn led to the detonation of ammunition; the cause of the fire is not known. The cruiser Moskva was the third largest warship of the Russian Navy. The Moskva is potentially the largest warship ever put out of action by a missile. The last time a ship of this type was sunk 40 years earlier - in 1982, during the Falklands War, a British submarine sank the cruiser General Belgrano of the Argentine Navy.
On April 15, 2022, a farewell ceremony for the cruiser was held at the monument in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet in Sevastopol. Contrary to the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the complete evacuation of the crew, on one of the mourning wreaths there was a ribbon with the inscription "To the ship and the sailors." On April 12, 2022, Ukrposhta issued a postage stamp “Russian military ship, go fuck yourself!”, but it caused a special stir after the sinking of the Russian cruiser. By Friday, April 15, all the stamps were sold out, but the general director of Ukrposhta announced plans to issue another million copies of this stamp. In a comment to a CNN correspondent, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov, commenting on the incident, said: “Putin has come to kill our children, our women, our civilians. This is our gift to him. And this is just the beginning. There will be more than one Moscow.” According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ukrainian authorities included the wreckage of the cruiser in the "registry of the underwater cultural heritage of Ukraine" under the number 2064.
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