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Wait, what? I have serious doubts about that, to be honest. Troops sure, but I can't fathom where they would have the deck space to carry more than a handful of vehicles of any type without impeding the operational capability of the ship. If you look at this image, you'll see that every free bit of deck space is utilised for one weapons system or another, from the helicopter flight deck right aft to the twin 130mm gun at the bow.

Just going what I read here. Is it possible that vehicles can be stored below deck do you know.

Not on a ship like that, it isn't. The entire battery of anti-aircraft missiles is housed in vertical launch systems that go down several decks and take up quite a lot of space in the hull, the different radars require significant space for signal processing equipment etc, there are magazines for the guns, the two quintuple torpedo launchers as well as for the helicopter and so on. Granted, there is a precedent for using cruisers and the like as landing ships, the Germans did it when they invaded Norway, and had their most modern cruiser, "Blücher", blown up by Oscarsborg fortress in the process. However, in such cases, the cruisers only transported the soldiers whilst the heavy equipment was brought in by dedicated transports.

I also think you slightly misread the ITV article. Whoever wrote that article must have done so under the influence, but the ship they're referring to as being able to carry "20 tanks, 45 armoured vehicles and 400 troops" is the landing transport Orsk, which was sunk in Berdyansk harbour back in March.

Has it been documented they are not interested any more and have stopped (honest question)?

If they're still "messaging" the West (esp. Europe) it would be different I imagine, less directly focussed on the war itself (no point in that).

Demoralisation and division re the sanctions/economic pain, refugee flows etc., boosting their creatures and friends who might be in with a shout at getting elected somewhere (e.g. Le Pen) and as always focussing on what's appealing to + will rile up the "independent thinker" types at political extremes they have cultivated for years.

Well I bloody well hope so!

My German Navy friends view on the ship for any who is interested, great moral victory for sure but more ships still capable of causing damage is my reading of it. Still a great day for Ukraine though

" I think it's going to be quite expensive to replace that old soviet junk. Especially becaus €500,000,000 currently are worth 450,737,099,685,816. Rubles.

Well, I saw this unit once off Cyprus, at sea. Impressive! Unfortunately, albeit a weapon-wielding colossus that caused much misery in port cities like Odessa, due to the sheer masses of Russian ships yet to be sunk in the Black Sea, it is primarily a impressive, moral success for the Ukrainians"

He was going to go into battleship repair but that's now gone south! Hopefully the f****r is drawing the dole in Clane at this stage.

Can anyone explain to me why the US were helping the orcs with the 'shes afloat and under her own steam and has safely reached port' BS narrative? The US were claiming their intelligence showed damage but that it was afloat and steaming back to port one minute, and Moscow was admitting it had sunk in a storm minutes later.

I don't think for a minute US intelligence was lacking, so why the very big lie?

No surprise, but sheesh!

I hope he’s in a rage. I hope he’s in so much of a rage that his blood pressure rises, causing a massive stroke, leaving him confined to a wheelchair, drooling and slobbering all over himself while he decays in his own faeces for the remainder of his useless fuckin life.

Incredible that a few weeks after the snake island incident, those Ukrainian soldiers are alive and that warship is at the bottom of the ocean. "Go fxck yourself Russian warship" indeed.

Where did they lie? Both narratives can be 100% true.

They said the ship appeared to have suffered a large explosion, hadn't sunk but appeared to still be on fire, and appeared to be getting towed back towards Sevastopol.

Russia stated it sank while being towed back to port.

Well someone earlier mentioned that Turkish and Romanian rescue ships had reported it sinking, so I gave credit to that idea which would have meant it was never under tow and never really moved far from where it was hit.