Supplement: for the Records….

….and to ‘close’ another story: the one about ‘Ukrainian missile strike destroyed the Russian amphib in the port of Berdyansk’, on 23 March…

….and to ‘close’ another story: the one about ‘Ukrainian missile strike destroyed the Russian amphib in the port of Berdyansk’, on 23 March 2022 — and thus explain why am I as skeptic regarding Ukrainian claims to have sunk guided missile cruiser Moskva.

Sorry, the sinking of Saratov — an Alligator-class LST — was no missile strike. ‘Just’ an accident. Here’s a video shown the start of that conflagration (‘action’ starts at around 20 sec):

For comparison, here a video taken 1–2 days earlier, and shown the results of a missile strike — which missed several ships (including Saratov) tied to the same dock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8DBb1Q-At8