Two days after Russia suffered a major symbolic defeat to its fleet in the Black Sea after the sinking of the Ukrainian army’s armored cruiser Moskva, international analysts have filed the case of Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgranooccurred in the South Atlantic during the Malvinas Islands War, in 1982.

The sinking of ARA General Belgrano took place on May 2, 1982 at 5:00 pm, outside the conflict exclusion zone established during the Malvinas War. Two MK-813 torpedoes he threw English nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror They hit the stern and bowed and the ship began to sink hopelessly into the water. Of the 1,093 crew, 323 were lost at sea.

The cruise was less than an hour away The American -made Argentine, which survived the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II, was completely covered in icy water.

The fact that the ARA Belgrano cruise ship sailed out of the exclusion zone at this time maarteng inatakehas formed throughout the history of complaints due to being a war crimes. More nationalist sectors said it was for ship attacks outside the exclusion zone. It is an area formed in a circle of 200 nautical miles around the Malvinas where the United Kingdom unilaterally claims sovereignty.

At the time of the attack and sinking the cruiser and its two destroyers escorted they did not sail south and outside such exclusion zone. But at the time the UK had “reserves the right to attack any ship or aircraftinside or outside the exclusion zone, which he considers a danger to his forces ”.

Now the loss of Moskva is an embarrassing blow for Moscow. According to Professor Evan Mawdsley, a leading historian who specializes in the history of Russia and World War II, the last time a russian cruiser sankit was 81 years ago on the coast of Crimea during World War II, when Allied forces attacked the Chernova Ukraine.

Mawdsley added that though Moskva is almost 40 years oldis one of the largest ships in the Russian Navy and no new large area ships have been built since the 1980s.

Initially, Ukraine did not confirm that its forces had carried out an attack on Moskva, but some time later Adopted by the United States that Ukrainian troops became the executor of the attack.

In this way, it is associated with the attack on the Russian ship with the ARA General Belgrano, as these international experts recall the largest warship sunk in battle in the last 40 years, that is, since the Malvinas War in 1982, when the Conqueror torpedoed the flagship of the Argentine Navy.

In the early days of the battle, Moskva was the ship that demanded the surrender of Ukrainian soldiers assigned to snake island, in the Black Sea. In a recording that went viral, the soldiers responded: “Russian ship, go to hell”

Clarín newsroom with information from the Associated Press, AFP and BBC News