Ukrainian Navy denies NYT report regarding strike on Russian Moskva cruiser: Operation was carried out independently
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Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:04:04 +0300
Ukraines Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk has denied a report by The New York Times claiming that Ukraine received the coordinates of the cruiser Moskva from the United States and was expected to coordinate such strikes in advance.
Source Pletenchuk on the national joint 24/7 newscast Quote The information youve just mentioned is not true.
First and foremost, we did not receive any coordinates regarding the location of the cruiser Moskva, and the operation to destroy this flagship of the Black Sea Fleet was planned and executed entirely by the Navy alone.
Of course, we coordinated the decision to deliver a strike with the top leadership in accordance with the chain of command, having received the appropriate authorisation.
And naturally, that leadership was Ukrainian.
We carried out the strike.
So the claims about coordination and the provision of exact coordinates and location are not true just like the claim that such actions had to be coordinated in advance.
Background On 30 March, The New York Times published a piece describing the negative reaction in the US following Ukraines strike on the Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva on 14 April 2022.
The article stated that in midApril 2022, US and Ukrainian naval officers noticed something unexpected on radar and US representatives informed the Ukrainians that it was the Moskva.
It also alleged that after the strike, for the Americans, there was anger, because the Ukrainians hadnt given so much as a headsup surprise, that Ukraine possessed missiles capable of reaching the ship and panic, because the Biden administration hadnt intended to enable the Ukrainians to attack such a potent symbol of Russian power.
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