Russia suffered a massive blow when the flagship of its Black Sea fleet was targeted Thursday and went down off Sevastopol as it led Moscow’s naval effort in the seven-week conflict.
The sunken Russian warship Moskva, which was destroyed by a Ukrainian missile strike, may have been carrying nukes when it went down, some experts warned Friday.
However, the expert said they would have been in a “protected place” that would have prevented them from being damaged in the explosion, according to the news outlet. Meanwhile, Andrii Klymenko, editor in chief of Ukraine’s BlackSeaNews portal, called for an urgent international investigation into whether the Moskva was in fact carrying nuclear weapons.“Friends and experts say that there are two nuclear warheads for cruise missiles on board the Moskva,” he said, according to East2West News.
“The Moskva missile cruiser, which overturned and began to sink after being hit by R-360 Neptune missiles, is a carrier of nuclear weapons,” it said in a report. “That is, are nuclear munitions always on board, or are they loaded only by special order?” it continued. “Given the choppy seas, the vessel sank,” the Russian state news agency TASS quoted the ministry as saying.
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