'The incident may end up being the worst single Russian military casualty event since the Second World War
By
Nataliya Vasilyeva,
RUSSIA CORRESPONDENT, ISTANBUL
16 April 2022 • 4:01pm
There were fears for the fate of hundreds of sailors aboard Russian flagship the Moskva on Saturday, with reports suggesting that just a few dozen of the 510-strong crew were able to be rescued before it was sunk by Ukrainian missiles earlier this week.
It took the Russian military almost a day to admit the embarrassing loss of the pride of its Black Sea fleet after it was hit in the early hours of Thursday, initially insisting that it had caught fire after an explosion and was being towed back to land.
But the US has since confirmed that the warship was hit by two Ukrainian strikes, believed to be Neptune anti-ship missiles.'