The Russian defense ministry says its Black Sea flagship Moskva, which was involved in Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, is still afloat after a fire set off ammunitions explosions onboard.
“There is no open fire. The ammunitions explosions have stopped. The Moskva cruiser remains afloat,” the ministry says in a statement.
It adds that the warship’s “main missile armaments” are not harmed and its crew has been evacuated to nearby ships in the Black Sea.
“Measures are ongoing to tow the cruiser into port,” the ministry says.
The Ukrainian military says earlier it had struck the Russian warship. The Russian defense ministry, however, says the cause of the fire was still being established.
The Moskva — which with other vessels in Moscow’s Black Sea fleet has been blockading the southern city of Mariupol — gained notoriety early in the war when it called on Ukrainian border troops defending the strategic Snake Island to surrender, only to be defiantly refused.
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