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Moskva was the only warship in Russia's Black Sea Fleet with the S-300F missile system for long-range air defense. While the ship did not itself fire missiles at land targets in Ukraine, it still provided anti-aircraft support to vessels that did, and the sinking prompted Russian ships, now less protected, to move further offshore. [21]
Moskva, formerly Slava, [b] was a guided missile cruiser of the Russian Navy. Commissioned in 1983, she was the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class , named after the city of Moscow . With a crew of 510, Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet and the most powerful warship in the region.
Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday in a terse announcement that one crew member died and 27 went missing after a fire damaged the flagship Moskva cruiser last week, while 396 others were evacuated.
Ukraine's sinking of Russian warship Moskva this spring was an unexpected reminder of the deadly lessons learned in another major war 40 years ago.
Re-entered service in the Russian Pacific Fleet in early 2008 after an overhaul. [3] In 2010, the Varyag visited San Francisco, California coincident with the visit of Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev to Silicon Valley during his trip to the U.S. Ukraina (ex-Komsomolets, ex-Admiral Flota Lobov) 1983 1990 Unfinished
Ukraine said Tuesday it had sunk the Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov off Crimea, ... Ukraine sank the flagship Moskva with hundreds of crew on board. ... Ukraine said it had cost about $65 million.
Russian supporters welcome the missile cruiser Moskva, a flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in 2008. ... That wasn’t true, and Russian authorities had always known as much. In fact, back ...
The action began with the blockade of Donuzlav bay by the Russian missile cruiser Moskva. The Russian Navy later scuttled the Russian anti-submarine ship Ochakov and several smaller vessels in the mouth of the bay to prevent Ukrainian ships from sailing to open sea and reaching the Ukrainian fleet in Odesa. As a result, 13 Ukrainian ships were ...