Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
In May and September 2017, in the course of the Russian military campaign in Syria, Admiral Essen fired Kalibrcruise missile at targets in the Hama and Deir ez-Zor regions, respectively.[7]
On 25 August 2018, the Black Sea Fleet reported Admiral Essen, along with its sister ship Admiral Grigorovich, were making a "planned passage from Sevastopol to the Mediterranean Sea" to join the Russian Navy's Mediterranean task force.[8]
On 29 March 2022, two Kalibr cruise missiles launched from the ship destroyed the regional council building in Mykolaiv.[10]
According to an advisor to the Ukrainian President's Office, Oleksiy Arestovich, on 3 April 2022 the ship was allegedly seriously damaged by Ukrainian Armed Forces as a result of an attack using an initially unspecified weapon system, later reported as being a R-360 Neptuneanti-ship cruise missile.[11][12][citation needed]
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^"На заводе «Янтарь» началось строительство корабля для ВМФ России (фото)" [Construction of a ship for the Russian Navy has begun at the Yantar shipyard (photo)]. Kaliningrad.ru (in Russian). 8 July 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
^""Адмирал номер два": фоторепортаж" ["Admiral number two": photo report]. Newkaliningrad.ru. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
^"Российская ракета "Циркон" достигла восьми скоростей звука" [Russian Zircon rocket reaches eight times the speed of sound]. Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). 15 April 2017.
^"В Калининграде спустили на воду сторожевой корабль для ВМФ России" [A patrol ship for the Russian Navy was launched in Kaliningrad]. Аргументы и Факты ('Arguments and Facts'). 7 November 2014. [The ship was laid down at the yard on 8 July 2011]
^"Атака с моря: фрегат ВМФ ударил "Калибрами" по боевикам в Сирии" [Attack from the sea: a naval frigate hit militants in Syria with "Kalibers"]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 5 September 2017.
^"Black Sea Fleet missile frigates to join Russia's Mediterranean task force". TASS. 25 August 2018.
^"Russian ships bombard Odesa with cruise missiles". The Times. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
^Veth (3 April 2022). "Ukrainian defenders damage Russian missile frigate". Ukrainetoday.org. Ukraine Today. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
^Sauer, Pjotr; Borger, Julian; Elgot, Jessica (14 April 2022). "Russia says Moskva cruiser has sunk after reported Ukrainian missile strike". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2022.