On this day, the Ukrainian naval forces attacked the Russian cruiser Moskva with two R-360 Neptune cruise anti-ship missiles from the RK-360MTs Neptune coastal anti-ship system. The historical video of the Neptune launch was published by journalist Yuri Butusov.
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The cruiser was seriously damaged. The strike was on the port side, while the attention of the ship was distracted by the Ukrainian Bayraktar TV2 drone. According to the data subsequently brought by the wounded Russian sailors evacuated from the cruiser to Sevastopol, first the Bayraktors fired at the failed radars, and after that there was an attack by the Neptunes. On April 14, the Russian Defense Ministry recognized the fire on the cruiser and the detonation of ammunition. As a result of the damage and difficult weather conditions, it capsized and sank. It was the first destruction of a ship of this size in combat since 1982, when the British submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War, and the biggest loss of the Russian navy since 1941, when a German bombardment collapsed.
Source: Racurs
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