Ukraine claims big success as leading Russian warship suffers massive damage in missile attack

Ukraine has claimed a major victory as one of Russia’s most important and potent warships suffered massive damage after a missile attack.

Ukraine said two Neptune anti-ship missiles were fired to target the leading Russian Slava-class Moskva warship.

Regional Governor of Odessa, Maksym Machenko, has confirmed that Ukraine targeted and hit the warship with Neptune missiles.

The incident on the Moskva missile cruiser occurred after ammunition on board blew up, Interfax news agency quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying. “As the result of a fire on the Moskva missile cruiser, ammunition detonated,” it said in a statement.