Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 04:29:23 PM

Quote from: https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14383383

The missile cruiser "Moskva" sank while being towed to its destination in a storm due to damage to the hull received due to a fire from the detonation of ammunition. This was reported on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

I hope our Kremlin friends finally got their propaganda material on this unfortunate event and will share it in this thread. They've been weirdly avoiding this topic so far.

Earlier they claimed that they had a fire that caused an ammo storage to explode and damage the ship, but whole crew was safely evacuated and all missiles were undamaged.
That Russian landing ship Orsk also had a fire a few weeks ago that caused it to sink. Probably an electrical malfunction, nothing to worry about comrades. Definitely not a missile strike!

Putin got a report that Moskva was destroyed. Before they could explain that it was a ship, not the capital, he lost consciousness.

Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 10:41:52 PM

Remember those yachts being seized around the world... a couple of those is worth roughly as much as that missile cruiser. Isn't it amazing how during Putins reign "individuals" were able to amass such wealth but the state can't build any new warships of that size and is using 40-years old Soviet ships with defense systems that can be defeated by a Turkish drone.

As far as I remember Sergei Pugachev, a former friend of Putin said that the reason for the state of the army is the reason why they have all this wealth. Putin and "his people" sell everything the Soviet army had to offer and used the money for their own benefit. They were even stripping electronics and selling it for scrap, which is why many Russian tanks in Ukraine looked like homeless people were living inside. That's why Putin could afford that enormous complex on the Black Sea coast.