I think the key here really is targeting, the Ukrainians were obviously given very accurate targeting information.

A friend of a friend did his full 25 years in the Navy and actually visited several Russianicon warships during the 90's, when we were all friends...

His verdict, absolute death traps and a total horror show. He's the guy who alerted me to big holes cut through bulkheads with cables loosely fed through, virtually no firefighting equipment etc...

That was over 20 years ago, so you can imagine how bad it is now!

As I believe the Turks have closed off the entrance to the Black Sea to Russian Warships, the Russians can't replace her with a replacement Maritime C4 asset either.