ロシア黒海艦隊旗艦、弾薬爆発で「重大損傷」　国営メディア

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】ロシア黒海艦隊の旗艦、ミサイル巡洋艦「モスクワ」で火災発生後に弾薬が爆発し、同艦は「重大な損傷」を被った。ロシア国営メディアが１４日、国防省の発表を引用して伝えた。（写真はロシアのミサイル巡洋艦「モスクワ」。資料写真）
　国防省は、乗組員は退避済みで、火災の原因は調査中としている。
　先にウクライナ南部オデーサ州のマクシム・マルチェンコ知事はメッセージアプリのテレグラムで、「（ウクライナ軍の）ネプチューンミサイルがロシア艦に重大な損傷を与えた。ウクライナに栄光あれ！」と投稿していた。
　ウクライナ大統領府のオレクシー・アレストビッチ顧問も、ユーチューブで配信した動画で、「ロシア黒海艦隊の旗艦でサプライズが起きた」として、「モスクワは荒れた海で今まさに激しく燃えている。乗組員５１０人が救助してもらえるかは分からない」と述べていた。
　巡洋艦モスクワは侵攻開始から間もない頃、ウクライナの要衝スネーク島の国境警備隊に降伏を呼び掛け、拒否されたことで注目を浴びた。兵士らは当初死亡したとみられていたが、捕虜になっていたことが判明。ウクライナ議会によると捕虜交換で３月下旬に解放された。ウクライナの人権オンブズパーソンは、兵士らは極寒の収容所で凍傷を負ったとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/04/14-12:35）

The Russian navy's Black Sea flagship has been seriously damaged by an ammunition explosion, Russian state media said Thursday.
As a result of a fire, ammunition detonated on the Moskva missile cruiser. The ship was seriously damaged, the Russian defence ministry was quoted as saying, adding that the cause of the fire was being determined and that the crew had been evacuated.
Earlier, the governor of Odessa said that Ukrainian forces had hit the Moskva with missile strikes.
Neptune missiles guarding the Black Sea caused very serious damage to the Russian ship. Glory to Ukraine! governor Maksym Marchenko wrote on Telegram.
A spokesman for the Odessa military administration, Sergey Bratchuk, said on Telegram that according to available data, the cause of the 'serious damage' was 'Neptune' domestic cruise missiles.
Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych said that a surprise happened with the Moskva.
It burns strongly. Right now. And with this stormy sea, it is unknown whether they will be able to receive help, he said in a YouTube broadcast.
We don't understand what happened.
The Moskva was originally built in the Soviet era in Ukraine's Mykolaiv, and entered service in the early 1980s, according to Russian media.
With a crew of 510, it was previously deployed in the Syria conflict where it served as naval protection for the Russian forces' Hmeimim airbase.
The missile cruiser carries 16 P-1000 Vulkan anti-ship missiles as well as an array of anti-submarine and mine-torpedo weapons, the reports said.
The Moskva gained notoriety early in the war when it called on Ukrainian border troops defending the strategic Snake Island to surrender, only to be defiantly refused.
The troops in question were initially believed to have been killed, but in fact were taken captive.
They were released as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia in late March, according to the Ukrainian Parliament.
Ukraine's human rights ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said the soldiers had described being taken to an unknown location where they were held in freezing conditions and suffered frostbite.