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Russia Reveals Crew Losses From Sunken Warship
At least one person was killed and another 27 are missing after the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, sunk earlier this month, according to Russian state media.
Another 396 crew members were evacuated to nearby ships and sent on to Sevastopol, a city in Crimea, Russia’s Tass news agency reported. The Russian government, as of Tuesday, had not previously acknowledged any casualties.
The Moskva, a guided-missile cruiser, sunk on April 14, though the cause remains disputed.
Ukraine says it hit the Moskva with anti-ship cruise missiles, which sparked a fire that detonated stored ammunition. The Moskva was armed with a range of anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles as well as torpedoes, naval guns, and missile defense systems, meaning it would have had massive amounts of explosives aboard.
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