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Russian state television has declared that World War III has already begun

Russian state television has declared that World War III has already begun

 Russian state television has declared that World War III has already begun after the sinking of the naval ship Moscow in the Ukrainian War. Russia said it was damaged after the fire, but Ukraine claimed credibility for destroying the flagship of Moscow‘s Black Sea Fleet with its Neptune missile.

However, the sinking of the ship led to the collapse of Russia 1, the main propaganda mouthpiece of the Kremlin. Host Olga Skabayeva told viewers that “what is escalating can  be confidently called World War,” and insisted that “it’s completely safe.” “

” I’m fighting NATO infrastructure now, if not NATO itself. I have to admit it, “Metro said Skabeyeva continued. The guests of the show likened the sinking of the Moskva River to an attack on Russian soil, but the Kremlin claimed she had descended due to a fire.

 Instead of talking about the war, the man remembered that the government-approved phrase  used for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “special military operations.” Show clips have become a hot topic on social media.

“You’re poking a bear (forgive me), but in this case, it’s a NATO bear,” commented a Twitter user. ” They lost all the five hundred tanks, an additional two thousand vehicle vehicles, eighty-two aircraft, more than eighteen thousand soldiers and a battlecruiser. NATO isn’t there yet. It is no exaggeration to say that this war with NATO has not been successful for Russia.

” On another state television channel, the presenter claimed that Ukraine was bidding on the West by “doing more provocation, bloody, horrifying, and unthinkable.”

 Olesya Loseva, presenter of Vremya Pokazhet on Channel One, said the West is currently supplying Ukraine with “billions of weapons.” Meanwhile, a Russian news agency reported late  Thursday that the warship Moscow sank in bad weather while being towed into the port.  The loss

of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet flagship not only undermines pride but also deprives the army of important protection and capabilities as the war continues. Ukraine is at a crucial stage for Moscow. It is still controversial how the Moskva River ignited late Wednesday.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the warship’s ammunition cache had exploded. Governor Maxim Marchenko, backed by the Ministry of Defense in the Odesa region of Ukraine, said he had been hit by two Neptune missiles. This is a new Ukrainian anti-ship missile system with only one battery.

Russian news agencies reported late on Thursday, citing the Defense Ministry, that the ship sank in bad weather while being towed to port.

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The result was an embarrassment for Russia and a victory for Ukraine. The ship gained notoriety early in the war for its confrontation with a small contingent of Ukrainian guards on Snake Island in the Black Sea, who, speaking of colour, is said to have told the Moskva to get lost. 

It will also cost Russia militarily. Although old, it entered service in 1982, the Slava (Glory) Moscow class was refitted in 2010. It provides a long-range mobile air defence bubble for the rest of the fleet, as well as command and control systems.

These abilities cannot be easily replaced. “This is the only class of ship that the Russian Navy currently has with a long-range air defence system,” said Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow in maritime power at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based consultancy. .

“It is important because, for the type of operations for which the Black Sea Fleet is designed, Moscow can sit down and create  air defences for the rest of the fleet while providing command and control.”

 A Western official described Ukraine’s claim of a missile attack on the Moskva River as credible and its losses a  blow.  Although Moscow has two sister ships, neither of them is in the Black Sea.

They could not enter there, because, under the rules of the  Montreux Convention of 1936, Turkey restricted access through the Bosphorus to Russian naval vessels. So far, the Russian Navy has played only a relatively small role in the war, used mainly as a supplementary source for cruise missile launchers to strike targets across Ukraine.

The Moskva does not have one, but it carries anti-ship missiles that made it the spearhead used against the US carrier fleets during the Cold War. 

“These ships will completely neutralize the US aircraft carrier fleet,”  Russian historian and opposition politician Andrei Zubov wrote Thursday in a Facebook post titled “The  End of the World”. the glory of Inglorious”.

He recalled the words of his father, who had overseen the construction of Moscow among other large naval and civilian ships. Zubov said his late father, who was an admiral, saw the heavy cruiser as a deterrent that should never be used when angry.

” Thank God that he doesn’t see how  Russian strategists today use their pride,” he said. “It is in itself a major military mistake  to use an anti-aircraft deterrent as a ship to provide fire support for an amphibious assault.”

This is especially due to the abolition of ship defence systems and analogue radar. There are about 500 crew members in Moscow, and Moscow says they have evacuated from the ship.

The Black Sea Fleet has been evacuated several times since the start of the war on February 24, but with no success as if it were attacking Odesa. According to Kaushal, this is primarily because the fleet’s deployable amphibious forces have a capacity of 3,000 and are too small to act without a major land attack.

The land-attack has not yet taken place as Russian troops are constantly blocked at Mykolaiv, the gateway to Odesa and Ukraine’s main Black Seaport. If they broke through,  Moskva would have been able to embrace an amphibious attack similar to that that occurred during the 2008 Russian-Georgia war. Throw it as a sea and rather a symbolic loss.

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Still, Russia has few ships of this class and lacks Soviet-era shipbuilding technology, he said.  Mykolayiv explains why Moscow is unlikely to be replaced in the medium term.

Not only is the city the only shipyard in the former Soviet Union that can build aircraft carriers, but also Zorya Mashproekt, a manufacturer of gas turbine engines for large ships like Moscow. After Russia’s President Vladimir Putin merged the nearby Crimean in 2014, access to both shipyards and engine makers was lost, hampering the Navy’s efforts to modernize and today on another Moskva River.

Production is becoming difficult. The project to build a destroyer similar in size to a Slava-class cruiser has been postponed. The design of the next-generation aircraft carrier called Storm remains on paper.

This is because Russia will have to remodel its shipyard if it does not have access to the Mykolaiv shipyard.

Gas turbine engines have excellent power-to-weight ratios and are becoming increasingly important for the complex systems of modern warships, as well as the additional thrust needed to propel an 11,490-ton ship like Moscow.

It is important because it also produces power. Very causal In particular, new generations of directed-energy weapons and railguns rely on large amounts of electricity that only gas turbines and nuclear engines can supply. Russia says there is a program to develop both.

 Sanctions on Russia for action in Ukraine are another complex factor. The naval vessel relies on large quantities of imported parts and technology from countries that have banned the export of technology. “Russia’s glory is burning on the coast of Ukraine,” Zubov wrote in his post. “I don’t know how many sailors were killed and hurt.”

edited and proofread by nikita sharma

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