According to the speaker of the Ukrainian Navy Dmytro Pletenchuk, the strike on the Russian cruiser in April 2022 was carried out without coordination with the American side. “We, of course, coordinated the firing strike with the top leadership according to the chain of command, having received the appropriate authorization. And this is, of course, the Ukrainian leadership,” Pletenchuk said.
Earlier, The New York Times wrote that Ukraine allegedly received the coordinates of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet from the United States and that it was expected to coordinate such strikes. According to the NYT, the sinking of the cruiser Moscow provoked the “anger” of the Joe Biden administration, which “was not going to give the Ukrainians the opportunity to attack such an important symbol of Russian power.”
