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The Independent UK
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Joe Middleton

Captain of sunken Russian warship Moskva ‘killed in explosion’, says Ukraine

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The captain of a Russian warship that sunk in the Black Sea died in an explosion following a missile strike, according to Ukrainian authorities.

First Rank Captain Anton Kuprin, 44, died during an “explosion and fire on board” the Moskva, Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s ministry of internal affairs, said on the messenger app Telegram.

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