The cruiser Moskva, which was destroyed by the Ukrainian Navy in April 2022, had seven floors, an elevator and a swimming pool, and had undergone a major renovation just before the full-scale invasion; this flagship was a real pride of Russia, and it was precisely because of the presence of the Moskva vessel that Russia had a fleet, not a flotilla.
Russia is both politically and economically unstable, andcontributes more to the proliferation of weapons of massdestruction than at any point since 1992.