Meanwhile, as fighting continued in eastern Ukraine on the 50th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow and the West exchanged new verbal taunts. “We don’t have the capacity at this point to independently verify that, but certainly the way that this unfolded is a big blow to Russia.”
“We’ve been in touch with the Ukrainians overnight who said they struck the ship with anti-ship missiles,” Sullivan told an audience at the Economic Club of Washington. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the vessel was badly damaged on Wednesday as a result of either “incompetence” or a successful attack by the Ukrainians. We do assess that there was an explosion - at least one explosion on this cruiser - a fairly major one at that, that has caused extensive damage to the ship.” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told CNN that “there was an explosion” on the ship, but added, “We’re not quite exactly sure what happened here. Defense Department official said, though it remains uncertain whether it was hit by a Ukrainian missile. The ship is now headed toward a port in Crimea for repairs, a U.S. The ministry added that the ship’s main weapons were not damaged and that efforts were being made to take the ship back to port.īut the governor of Odesa said Ukraine launched two cruise missiles that struck the ship. It said the fire had been contained and the ship remained afloat. The Russian defense ministry blamed a fire that detonated ammunition on board the guide-missile Moskva. Russia said Thursday it evacuated all its crew from the flagship of its Black Sea fleet following an onboard explosion, but Ukraine said it hit the ship in a missile attack.
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