well, the sinking of the warship moskva is huge in so many ways and what my sources have told me is that ukrainians used two anti-ship cruise missiles called the neptune missiles, and the way they the way they did it, they used a 2 b 2 drone to keep the radar busy on the moskva ship, on the sea side, not the land side, the sea side. so the radar was looking in a different direction, there was some rain going on so the cruise missiles went wave top and hit the ship. the destruction of the moskva is the largest warship to be destroyed in combat really since world war ii. the moskva is actually larger than a general borano that was destroyed by the british royal navy in 1982, falklands war.
taking the lead. though we will all know that many of the decisions might be wrong, by this administration, where based on pour advice coming from cia and pentagon that heavily underestimated the ukrainian army. and believe that the war would be over in four, or five days. certainly not, here we are. day 51 and what happened? the loss of that russian warship. general, how much of a military setback is that? is it really just symbolic and huge emotional or morale boosting win for ukrainians? or is it serious business in terms of the loss? well i think it s also a huge boost for ukrainian morale. by the way, i have no doubt in my own life for having followed this for the last 24 hours, ukrainian sunk the ship with two neptune missiles and a deception operation. it was a very clever aggressive move. and there s also unconfirmed rumors that much of that ships
The floating command centre provided protection for Moscow’s entire Black Sea Fleet, but while its loss is a bitter blow, the Russian navy so far has not played a big role in the conflict.
0 tonight s last word is the 11th hour stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, russia s lead battleship some. ukraine says it fired a missile responsible in a potentially major blow to putin s war. then, he argued trump made him do it, but the jury did not buy it. a new verdict for the january 6th case and what the judge said tonight about the former president and future of our democracy. and what s in the world s elon musk s endgame in his bids by twin or as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. as the war on ukraine moves into day 51, there are more signs the kremlin is preparing for a new more lethal onslaught. a senior u.s. defense official says russia now has 65 operational battalion tactical groups in the east and south with more military equipment still incoming. clearly, what the russians are doing is trying to do what we call shaping. they re trying to set the conditions for success in the donbas for some future
it was that ship that was radio-ing with ukrainians there. that has been struck by two neptune missiles, ukraine army is claiming, and the russians have admitted that they said ammunition far on board. if that seems like a pretty big deal. it is. and this could be indicative of sort of the next part of this offensive as well. it has not really been in the maritime environment. so the russians have minesweepers and frigates in the sea of azov which is off closer to the donetsk area. and they have a number of landing ships in the black sea. those have not been very active, there have literally been just a handful of missiles that have been flown off of those. they haven t brought any russian troops off of any of the ships yet. there has been some resupply efforts from the frigates in the sea of haze off. but there hasn t been much of a maritime fight here. what u.s. officials are watching very closely is, is that going to change in the coming days and weeks? now, one thing that might