{"id":5657,"date":"2022-04-15T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2022-04-15T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:41:31","slug":"yes-ukraine-sank-the-moskva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5657","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Ukraine Sank the Moskva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No, I am not just blindly taking Ukraine’s assertion on it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The Russian claim that a fire broke out and it had to be abandoned just doesn’t make much sense. Nobody just abandons a ship, particularly a prize asset like the Moskva<\/em>, because a fire breaks out. They try and fight the fire. If they couldn’t, this points to crew incompetence that is even more embarrassing than a missile strike.<\/li>
  2. The Russians don’t even believe their own claim. Just look at this anthology<\/a> of how the Russian state media is screeching in outrage at Ukraine over the sinking. Why all the outrage at Ukraine if Ukraine had nothing to do with it?<\/li>
  3. The US Department of Defense has concluded<\/a>, based on the available intelligence, that Ukranian missiles were responsible for the sinking.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Simply all of the best available evidence is pointing to it being a successful Ukrainian attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And it is a major loss for Russia. The Moskva<\/em> was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. This is the largest deliberate sinking<\/a> of a ship since World War II. Large ships are not built overnight; it will take many years to complete constructing a replacement. In the meantime, Russia is not able to move a replacement into the theatre of combat from one of their other fleets because Turkey has closed the Bosporus<\/a> to Russian warships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    No, I am not just blindly taking Ukraine’s assertion on it: The Russian claim that a fire broke out and it had to be abandoned just doesn’t make much sense. Nobody just abandons a ship, particularly a prize asset like the Moskva, because a fire breaks out. They try and fight the fire. If they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5658,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/5658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}