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Good morning, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. as ukraine says, they have dealt a major blow to russia's naval fleet in the back sea. ukrainian officials say the flagship vessel is sinking after taking missile fire. but russia is saying the damage was caused by an ammunition fire and officials say the ship is still afloat. this is how admiral stavridis characterized the blow. >> the first thing at annapolis, the first thing they teach you is never let your ship blow up. it's like the navy said, wait, hold my beer, let me show you what we can do. and the brooklyn sub...

That was the flagship vessel of ukraine's relatively small navy, until it was sunk not by russian forces actually but by ukraine itself. the ship had been docked for repairs in the ports city of mike lee off and on the black sea coast when the war broke out last week. and the captain of the ship actually feared that those repairs would not be finished in time to prevent the crown jewel of ukraine's navy from falling into russian hands. he did not want to take that risk. so he basically carried out orders to sink the ship. ukraine's defense minister described the captains predicting it this way...

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