Some time before the attack, an American patrol plane was said to have flown over the sea area where the Russian ship was anchored.
Did the US military play a role in the destruction of the Moskva? According to Daily mail that transmits information from Time, the US Navy has provided the exact location coordinates of the Russian flagship to Ukrainian forces. And this, thanks to its maritime surveillance aircraft, a P-8 Poseidon built by Boeing. Equipped with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, it can track surface ships and submarines at a distance of more than 100 miles.
The P-8 would have taken off from the American naval airbase Sigonella in Sicily a few hours before the attack. Before reaching the Black Sea coast, Poseidon reportedly disabled its trackers so that it could no longer be located. So the plane would have been almost three hours “hidden” before being detected by radar again. The Times adds that on the day of the attack, slightly more American planes flew over the Black Sea coast.
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However, the US Navy declined to confirm whether or not it helped Ukraine in the attack by providing intelligence. A defense source, interviewed by The Times, added: “In line with our support for NATO’s eastern flank, we conducted air patrols limited off the coast of Romania.” But we will not talk about the details of operational problems”.
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Ukraine claimed to have fired two missiles at the Russian warship patrolling south of Odessa on April 13. Russia first claimed that the ship, which had more than 500 crew on board, exploded after a fire on board before detonating forced to admit that the ship had been destroyed by hostile actions. Moscow was the main radar platform of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, equipped with S-300 surface-to-air missiles to protect against air attacks.
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