Ochakov, a Russian Kara-class cruiser, was decommissioned in 2011 and had been scheduled to be scrapped. Instead, the Russian Navy scuttled the ship late Wednesday in the navigation channel in the approach to Donuzlav Lake, in Novoozerne, in the Western Crimea. The scuttled ship now blocks Ukrainian naval vessels from leaving the nearby naval base. It is not clear how many naval vessels the Ukrainians might have had in the lake and ministry spokesman Maxim Prowta declined to say.The base had previously been blockaded by the Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva. Now that the channel is blocked by the scuttled cruiser, the Moskva and other Russian vessels are reported to have left the area.
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Ukrainians should blow that ship up to kingdom come!
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Read the articles a day or so ago, checked Marine Traffic and there are no ships at all around that so called lake, if it is a lake.
Where there does seem that there is a blockage is over to the east in the Strait of Kerch.