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Brandon Gage

Ukraine sank Russia's naval flagship

A picture taken on September 10, 2008, shows the Moskva, missile cruiser flagship of Russian Black Sea Fleet, entering Sevastopol bay Vasiliy BATANOV/AFP via Getty Images

The Russian Black Sea Fleet's flagship, the Moskva (Moscow), sank on Thursday hours after Ukrainian resistance fighters bombarded it with multiple anti-ship missiles.

"Ukrainian military officials said they struck the Moskva with Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles - a weapon designed after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the naval threat to Ukraine in the Black Sea grew," according to the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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