A Russian state television journalist assured that World War III has already begun, after Ukrainian forces managed to sink Moskva, the Kremlin's flagship.
Rossiya 1 channel presenter Olga Skabeyeva said that the warship suffered a “fire” and claimed that the “escalation” between the two sides could “safely be called World War III”.
He also noted that Russia “is definitely fighting NATO itself.”
The presenter's position seems to be in line with other publications in the press that propagate Kremlin reports and that Russian troops took prisoner military personnel from NATO countries who were in eastern Ukraine helping to defend the territory. The comment, attributed to Andrey Klimov, an official in the Upper House of the Duma - the Russian parliament - could refer to a group of Polish militiamen who were ambushed by Russian troops on the eastern front of the conflict.
The sinking of Moskva
The Russian Defense Ministry admitted on Wednesday that the Moskva cruiser was sunk. However, his version of the fact is that there was an explosion due to an onboard ammunition accident and that it sank in a storm.
“During the towing of the Moskva ship to the port of destination, the ship lost its stability due to the damage to the hull due to the fire following the explosion of ammunition. In rough sea conditions, the ship sank,” declared the ministry, quoted by the state agency TASS.
The Russian Defense Ministry had previously said that the fire had been contained and that the Soviet-era ship could stay afloat even though it was severely damaged. He also said that he would investigate the cause of the fire and that hundreds of crew members had been evacuated to other ships in the Black Sea.
For its part, Ukraine claimed that the ship had been hit by a missile attack. Odessa military spokesman Sergey Bratchuk said that the Moskva had been damaged by “Neptune domestic cruise missiles”, in a version echoed by the regional governor.
The Neptune is an anti-ship missile recently developed by Ukraine and based on an earlier Soviet design. The launchers are mounted on trucks parked near the coast and, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, missiles can hit targets at a distance of up to 280 kilometers.
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