Earlier this week, a senior US defence official stated that two Ukrainian Neptune missiles hit the Moskva, Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea.

According to a more comprehensive assessment from an American official, the ship was struck and sunk as a result of a Ukrainian missile strike.

“According to a source familiar with the intelligence, the US believed with medium confidence’ that Ukraine’s account of events surrounding a missile strike on the warship – which Moscow has contested – was correct,” CNN reported yesterday.

Other units of the naval group attempted to help the Moskva, but the vessel capsized and began to sink due to a sea storm and a huge explosion of ammunition on board, according to the Ukraine Army’s Pivden (South) Operational Command on April 14.

The ship sank while being “tugged” to a port, Russia acknowledged in the evening of the same day.

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