Train me and give me one of these and I’m off, no need for wheel chair and bazooka!
Looks like something from star wars.
Moskva:
https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1515823256040873998
At least, it it thought to be the Moskva. See NotWoofers for missile damage.
Seems to back up both that Ukraine hit it and that Russia got most of the sailors evacuated.
It does. As always OSINT is always preliminary, so when Ukraine says that the entire crew died, you can’t trust it. Ukraine may have believed it to be so, but unless they had a mole (super unlikely) they could not really know for sure.
But it absolutely got hit by missiles !
However, we have Chuck here, who seems dead sure it is fake (and previous video of the crew was likely fake from what I have read by credible OSINT accounts). We must treat it still with some caution. It is possible for Russia to leak this with a doctored photo.
Let us wait some hours to see what other experts who will now study these photos say.
It is definitely on fire and starting to list.
If, as suggested, the navy moved other ships further to sea, then it would point to missile attack. It makes sense.
And the pictures shows a Slava class, so there is no doubt about that at least. But I am posting Chuck’s objection anyway.
Mind you, from what I am reading from various sources, that fire has been absolutely massive. Likely killed a very large amount of people.
Russian article:
(missing not included in the killed of course, yet dead they are).
https://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2020-09/1599028518_1599028465.jpg
Looks like the same ship to me. 2 missiles to midships is my guess (even if informed).
Yeah, but I am listening to an OSINT channel now. And they are saying it may be a doctored photo using the Iranian warship that went down since the sea is so similar and etc. People are not sure. It’s going for photographic forensics this !
We mustn’t forget the drone or drones and also the possibility of multiple explosions. For those actually on the vessel it could have seemed to have been multiple strikes by missiles but may have just been one. Not that it’s important as the ship was technically sunk. Also it could be difficult for a ‘proud’ sailor on such a ship to admit that just one missile, for example, could sink her so they multiply the number of missiles.
People claim that it shows entrance damage of 2, maybe 3 missiles. But now I am just parroting stuff I read from OSINT accounts.