Sinking of the Moskva

Sinking of Moskva

Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Moskva seen from the air in 2012
Date	14 April 2022; 2 years ago (2022-04-14)
Location	East of Snake Island, Black Sea
Coordinates	45°10′43″N 30°55′31″E / 45.17861°N 30.92528°E / 45.17861; 30.92528
Cause	Hit by two Ukrainian R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles leading to a fire which caused munitions to explode
Participants	Russian Navy  Ukrainian Armed Forces
Deaths	18 killed (per Russian government) 40 killed (per Novaya Gazeta Europe) ~240 killed (per Naval News) 300 killed (per Business Insider) 400–600 killed (per The Insider)[1]
Non-fatal injuries	200 injured (per Business Insider)
Missing	10 missing (per Official Russian sources)[2]

The Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, sank on 14 April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials announced that their forces had hit and damaged it with two R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles, and that the ship had then caught fire. The United States Department of Defense later confirmed this, and Russia reported that the ship had sunk in stormy seas after the fire reached munitions onboard and they exploded.

The cruiser is the largest Russian warship to be sunk in wartime since the end of World War II, and the first Russian flagship sunk since Knyaz Suvorov in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War.

Russia said that 396 crew members had been evacuated, with one sailor killed and 27 missing, but there are unverified reports of more casualties. At least 17 of the missing crew members were later declared dead by a court in Sevastopol.