Ukraine Sunk the RTS Moskva, With a Lot of Help From Russia

Glenn Rocess
6 min readApr 15, 2022
She was a beautiful ship. The operative word is “was”. Now she’s an artificial reef. (dir.md)

The RTS Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, has been sunk. According to Ukrainian sources, they struck the Moskva with two Neptune missiles and sent the Moskva to the bottom of the sea. At first, the Russian news agencies claimed that a fire had broken out and damaged the ship. But it’s hard to claim that a ship hasn’t sunk, and after some time, even the Russian news…

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Glenn Rocess

Retired Navy. Inveterate contrarian. If I haven’t done it, I’ve usually done something close.