Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the Moskva cruiser had sunk.. At this time, CNN notes that this is the first time in the world in the last 40 years that such a flagship has sunk..

The latest loss of this magnitude was the sinking of an Argentine cruiser by a British torpedo during the Falklands War in 1982..

[see_also ids\u003d"

Recall, on the evening of April 14, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed that the cruiser " They noted that as a result of the storm, the already damaged ship capsized..

It was the cruiser Moskva, which Ukrainian defenders attacked on Wednesday, April 13, that became the most expensive military loss of the Russian Federation in the war with Ukraine.