Russia claims one sailor dead and 27 missing following sinking of Black Sea warship Moskva

Sidharth Kaushal, a sea power research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), confirmed the latest pictures do show the Moskva gutted by fire. “I have examined the images and they are of the Moskva,” he told The Independent. “The placement of the radar – visible in the photo – the canisters for surface to air and surface to surface missiles and the hull form all seem to confirm that they are of a Slava-class cruiser, and thus must be the Moskva.”