crown jewel of russia s black sea naval fleet, a symbol of national pride and naval firepower. and now the guided missile cruiser has sunk, the victim of an apparent missile strike by the ukrainian military. satellite images show the moskva in port in crimea just last week. sources say u.s. and western intelligence believe ukrainian s claim of a missile strike are credible. russia says a fire broke out on board the ship, igniting munitions. it was famous for snake island when its crew told coast guardsmen to surrender. the ukrainians responded telling the ship where to go. the strike on the moskva is just the first. there is much more to come. and in the u.s., the pentagon press secretary played up the victory for the ukraine. this is a big blow to the black sea fleet. this is a cruiser, a very, very capable warship with almost 500 sail owners board, and a key part of their efforts to execute some sort of naval dominance in the black sea. so this is going to have an effect
Crown jewel of russia s black sea naval fleet, a symbol of national pride and naval firepower. and now the guided missile cruiser has sunk, the victim of an apparent missile strike by the ukrainian military. satellite images show the moskva in port in crimea just last week. sources say u.s. and western intelligence believe ukrainian s claim of a missile strike are credible. russia says a fire broke out on board the ship, igniting munitions. it was famous for snake island when its crew told coast guardsmen to surrender. the ukrainians responded telling the ship where to go. the strike on the moskva is just the first. there is much more to come. and in the u.s., the pentagon press secretary played up the victory for the ukraine. this is a big blow to the black sea fleet. this is a cruiser, a very, very capable warship with almost 500 sail owners board, and a key
Loser out of this in many ways. the russian economy is heavily sanctioned. it will be suffering from those sanctions for a generation or nor. nato is likely to expand. his military is being exposed as a paper tiger in all this. when does that start to impact on his hold on the leadership, on the presidency of russia? that s a really good question, because if you look at this war, it really has been an unmitigated disaster for russia. you know, they ve taken perhaps as many as 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers killed in action. thousands of pieces of military equipment destroyed. they galvanized the west, sweden and finland now express readiness to join nato because they see that in their security interests. and you have these sanctions, which are just beginning to take their toll on the russian economy, which the world bank expects to contract by 11% this year. i don t see how anybody in moscow could consider this a victory for russia. but i don t know if there is anybody in that inner circl
To keep getting it wrong. why should they suddenly get this right? well, i m not sure at this point that the russians can prevail. you have seen over the last 50 days a remarkably determined and tenacious ukrainian defense. they have driven back the russians. the russians have withdrawn from north of kyiv. the russians have withdrawn elsewhere in northern ukraine, and it appears the russian military has significantly downsized its objective. it s no longer trying to take kyiv or the eastern two-thirds of the ukraine. it s focused now on donbas. so i m not going to make the assumption that the russian military can in fact win this fight. in the early days when that russian invasion began, it seemed like the best, most likely outcome for ukraine would be to officially recognize what was the status quo, acknowledge areas of ukraine controlled by moscow-backed separatists, recognize russia s illegal annexation of crimea. that s really changed now. that is not on the table
This is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m john vause life in lviv, ukraine, and on day 51 on vladimir putin war of choice, his guided missile cruiser the moskva now at the bottom of the black sea, sent there either by an ukrainian missile attack or incompetence by russian soldiers. either way a huge blow. live from atlanta, i m michael homes. 95% of china s new covid cases in one city. we ll take you inside the lockdown in shanghai. with a crew of 510 of the very latest in high-tech weaponry, the moskva was the