It's Monday, April 18, 2022.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

Sometimes in the history of the world big changes come unannounced,

but that doesn't mean they're unrecognized.

A very interesting development has taken place just in the course of the last several days and I can assure you it has the attention of Navy leaders all over the world.

The big event that has everyone's attention was the sinking last Thursday of the Mosva.

That's not just any vessel.

That guided missile cruiser was the flagship and the pride of Russia's Black Sea fleet.

And it was sunk.

Immediately after it was sunk, it was attacked, it began to burn, and then it sank as it was

being towed.

The Russian government came out and said directly

that the ship had not been hit by Ukrainian forces. The some kind of fire had

started on board, it had spread, that led to the destruction of much of the ship, eventually to it sinking,

but from the very beginning the assumption was

there had to be some way the Ukrainians were behind this

and one particular weapon

came to the imagination almost immediately and that is

the cruise missile. Specifically when it comes to Ukraine cruise missiles known as

Neptune missiles and one of the ironies here is that those missiles were

originally developed in the old Soviet Union which is to say they basically have

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