The Russian Ministry of Defense has publicly admitted that its 12,500-ton warship Moskva with a crew of 520 sailors suffered a major exposition in the ship's magazine (the area where all munitions and explosives are kept.) They admitted that all crew members had been evacuated from the ship.
I can tell you that after serving 4.5
years in the US Navy including time on a destroyer, when the crew abandons a
ship, it is doomed. I went in-depth. The ship was in rough seas. The crew is in
lifeboats and rafts. Rescue efforts for the crew are stymied by rough seas.
There are unsubstantiated reports that the warship has capsized.
Ukraine claims that the ship was hit by 2-3
Neptune anti-ship missiles. The story is that the crew of the warship was
distracted by a drone flying over the ocean. This has not been confirmed by
reliable third-party sources.
There is a plausible alternative
explanation of what happened to the ship. Military professionals comment that
Russians do a poor job of handling munitions that are stored. Accidents are
frequent with explosions and fires at warehouses, ammunition dumps, and ships
magazines. This could have been one of these accidents.
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