Black Sea, off the coast of Odessa. The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva, sinks. It is a 182-meter, 12,490-ton ship. The Russians claim it was due to a fire on board and bad weather, while the Ukrainians claim they hit it with two Neptune missiles. There were 510 sailors aboard the ship, all of whom the Russians claim were rescued. The last time a ship of this size was lost in war was the Argentine General Belgrano, during the Falklands War, forty years earlier. The Moskva was the third-largest ship in the entire Russian navy.
