On board. all the crew have been taken off the ship and are going to tow it back to port where they are going to establish the cause. little information here. sadly, no acknowledgement about whether or not this was caused by a ukrainian missile strike. even at some point if it is independently verify that it was it is interesting to see how thatis it was it is interesting to see how that is handled by state television which this morning is not talking about what has happened to this flagship cruiser. i had a look at the headlines earlierjust out of interest as if they were talking about it and both the stations i looked at, nothing at all. they are talking about how russian soldiers are handing out humanitarian aid to civilians and how ukrainian forces have been attacking civilians. that is the picture that russian viewers andindeed is the picture that russian viewers and indeed readers are given of this war. fish and indeed readers are given of this war. , and indeed readers are gi
Bear in mind that, of course, here in russia, the narrative are strictly controlled by vladimir putin so russians are not seeing or hearing very much of what you see here at home or indeed the kind of information ukrainians are getting access to. as far as russia is concerned and bear in mind most russians in the getting their information from russian state television or newspapers, it is all going according to plan and, actually, the veal plan all along was simply to defend the interests of russian speaking populations in the donbas region and to protect russia against the so called aggressions of ukraine aided by the west. we get daily updates here from the ministry of defence, sometimes several times a day, actually put up and they re always very upbeat and they talk about the developments and progress russian are making in ukraine and in terms of the latest on this flagship cruiser. the ministry of defence have actually issued another statement saying it issued another statement sa