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Largest Superyachts Set to Launch in 2022

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This year will see the launch of numerous exciting projects; amongst them are some of the world's largest ever superyachts, all smashing the 110m mark. Here are the five biggest yachts set to land this year...

1.  Project Luminance (145m) Masters in gigayacht building, Lurssen, are set to launch one of the top 10 largest superyachts of all time. Thought to be currently based at an outfitting facility in Lemwerder, she is expected to be delivered this year to her owner who is reported to hail from the Middle East.   

2.  Y721 (127.0m) Upon her delivery, the three-masted schooner will be the largest pure sailing yacht in the world. Rumoured to be bought by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, the Oceanco-build will become the 23rd largest superyacht in the world when she hits the water.  

3.  Project 1010 (118.0m) Feadship's largest ever launch is set to kiss the waters this year toppling its previous biggest build, Anna, by an additional eight metres. Currently in Feadship's Makkum facility for outfitting, there is much excitement about the mysterious design of the superyacht.  

4.  ABEKING 6507 (118.0m) Featuring a distinctive and sophisticated design by Joseph Dirand Architecture, Abeking 6507 will cater for plentiful tenders, toys and even a submarine. The Abeking & Rasmussen build is their largest project to date and will play host to a vast range of on board ammenties including a large swimming pool and Neptune lounge.   

5.  NB 724 (111.85m) A mysterious project to come out of the Paulino Freire shipyard in Vigo, little is known about the Galician build. The motor yacht that will be delivered towards the end of the year will host seven cabins for guests to enjoy, and her enormous size makes her the biggest superyacht to date to be constructed in Spain. 

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Russian Invasion of Ukraine What Happened on Day 50 of the War in Ukraine

Ukraine says it hit the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet with a missile strike. Russia says the ship was damaged by a fire and sank while being towed to port. E.U. leaders considered an oil ban despite its potential to increase energy prices around the bloc.

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BRUSSELS — Russia’s faltering war against Ukraine suffered a pair of setbacks Thursday when the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet sank after a catastrophic explosion and fire, as the European Union moved closer to an embargo on Russian oil imports.

Ukraine claimed to have struck the vessel, the guided missile cruiser Moskva, with two of its own Neptune missiles, while Russia said the blast was caused by ammunition aboard the ship. If confirmed, the missile attack would be a serious blow to Russia, both militarily and symbolically — proof that its ships can no longer operate with impunity, and another damaging blow to morale.

It would also give a lift to Ukrainian hopes, while demonstrating the defenders’ homegrown technological capacity and exposing an embarrassing weakness in the Russian navy’s antimissile defenses.

Moscow also faces the possible loss of European markets in fossil fuels, which are providing billions of dollars a month to support its war effort. The European Union has long resisted calls to reduce its energy dependency on Russia, but officials revealed on Thursday that an oil embargo is in the works and is likely to be adopted in the coming weeks.

That comes on top of a previously announced ban on imports of Russian coal . Taken together, the steps are bound to raise fuel and electricity prices in Europe, potentially disrupting the economy and provoking a political backlash.

Ukraine continues to brace for a Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas region — where Moscow has said it will focus its war efforts after its failure to capture the capital, Kyiv — while Russian forces squeeze the shrinking pocket of resistance in the ruined southern port of Mariupol. The devastation rained there has offered a dire warning of what may befall other cities in the event of a prolonged Russian siege, prompting a mass exodus of civilians from the Donbas.

Its international isolation deepening, the Kremlin reacted ominously to the growing indications that Finland and Sweden would join the NATO alliance in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Thursday, the government warned that any such expansion of NATO would prompt an increased Russian military presence, including nuclear weapons, in the region.

The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, warned on Thursday of the possibility that Mr. Putin, facing a debacle in Ukraine, might use a tactical or low-yield nuclear weapon, though he stressed that he had seen no “practical evidence” that such a step was pending. It was the first time he discussed publicly a concern that has been much debated in the White House.

“Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they’ve faced so far, militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons,” Mr. Burns said, in answering questions after a speech in Atlanta.

Prominent voices in Russian state media have made increasingly incendiary statements recently, calling for more brutality in battles that have already sparked calls for war-crimes investigations of the Russian forces.

Much remained unclear about Russia’s setback in the western Black Sea, where a blast on Thursday morning — Wednesday night in the United States — and subsequent fire forced many of the Moskva’s roughly 500 crew members to abandon ship. There was no word on casualties. Ukraine said it had struck the vessel with two Neptune missiles and sunk it.

Russia’s Defense Ministry initially said its sailors had managed to put out the fire and the Moskva, commissioned in 1983, remained afloat. But hours later, it said, the ship sank while being towed to port in a storm.

Western defense officials said they could not be sure what caused the explosion aboard the 12,000-ton ship. Three American officials briefed on the incident said all indications were that it had been hit by missiles. The officials cautioned that early battlefield reports can sometimes change, but expressed deep skepticism over the Russian account of an accidental fire.

Ukraine has been stressing the need for coastal defense weapons, and the U.S. announced this week that it would send more of them. Pentagon officials said that other Russian ships had moved farther from the Ukrainian shoreline, lending credence to the claim of missile strikes.

“It’s going to have an impact on their naval capabilities, certainly in the near term,” but the long-term picture is unclear, said the Pentagon spokesman, John F. Kirby, a former Navy rear admiral.

Until now, Russian ships have been able to fire missiles at will against coastal cities. They have blockaded Ukraine’s south coast and threatened an amphibious landing in the southwestern region. The presence of an effective Ukrainian anti-ship weapon — Ukraine says the Neptune has a range of about 190 miles — could change those calculations, though Ukraine’s commercial shipping is unlikely to resume anytime soon.

Current and former American naval commanders said a successful missile attack would represent a shocking lack of Russian combat readiness.

“This is not supposed to happen to a modern warship,” said Adm. James G. Foggo III, a former commander of the United States Sixth Fleet, whose area of operations includes Europe. “If this was a Neptune missile strike, it’s indicative of complacency and lack of an effective integrated air and missile defense capability.”

Ukraine has endured most of the suffering in the war that began on Feb. 24, with untold thousands of casualties, widespread destruction and millions of people displaced, but the blowback on Russia has also been severe. Moscow’s vaunted military has often seemed hapless, absorbing unexpectedly heavy losses of men and equipment, while unprecedented sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies have shaken the Russian economy.

President Vladimir V. Putin acknowledged some of that cost on Thursday in a videoconference with top government officials and oil and gas executives, referring to “the disruption of export logistics” in that industry and “setbacks in payments for Russian energy exports.”

Fossil fuels are Russia’s biggest export product, a huge part of the Russian economy that employs millions of people and supplies the government with much of the revenue needed to support its war-making machinery.

Now E.U. officials and European diplomats say the bloc is moving toward barring oil imports from Russia, a ban that would be phased in over months to allow countries to arrange alternative supplies. They said European leaders will not make a final decision until after April 24, when France will hold its presidential runoff; a rise in fuel prices could hurt the prospects of President Emmanuel Macron and boost his right-wing opponent, Marine Le Pen, who has praised Mr. Putin.

The government of Germany, the most influential country in the European Union, has been particularly reluctant to cut off Russian fuel, which would come at a steep cost and could lead to shortages. But pressure from allies and mounting evidence of Russian atrocities in Ukraine have, step by step, overcome that resistance. Germany refused to allow the virtually completed, $10 billion Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to go into service, supported the coal ban and now appears to be on board with an oil embargo.

The shifting stance of the neutral Scandinavian states is another unintended consequence for Mr. Putin. In waging a war that he said was intended to keep Ukraine out of NATO — a distant prospect at best — he may have succeeded in driving two countries that had been steadfastly nonaligned for generations into the arms of the alliance.

Dmitri A. Medvedev, a senior Russian security official, said on Thursday that if Sweden and Finland joined NATO, there would be “no more talk of a nuclear-free Baltics” region. Moscow would be compelled to “seriously strengthen” its air and ground forces in the area, said Mr. Medvedev, a former president and prime minister, and could deploy nuclear-armed warships “at arm’s length” from Finnish and Swedish shores.

Vladimir Solovyov, a television host who is considered a leading voice of Kremlin propaganda, said on Wednesday that Russia should destroy all Ukrainian infrastructure, including basic utilities.

Russia “must bring these terrorists to their senses in the cruelest way,” he said on his show on the state-owned Russia-1 channel. “We need to talk differently with terrorists,” he added. “There shouldn’t be any illusions that they can win.”

Russia has forced independent news outlets to shut down or leave the country, and has criminalized disputing the Kremlin’s account of the war. Yet Margarita Simonyan, the head of the state-owned RT news organization, said earlier this week that the government should restrict information even more.

No major power can exist “without having information under its control,” she said, adding, “we are all waiting for this.”

Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Brussels, and Richard Pérez-Peña from New York. Reporting was contributed by Ivan Nechepurenko and Anton Troianovski from Istanbul, Michael Schwirtz from London, and Helene Cooper , Eric Schmitt , David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes from Washington.

Jeffrey Gettleman

A reporter covering the war reflects on the legacy of the Holocaust.

LUBLIN, Poland — On a recent morning, I sat in the sun-filled dining room of a tidy house in eastern Poland, across from one of the most generous men I’ve ever met.

He was a Polish apple farmer who took in eight Ukrainian refugees, all complete strangers, and gave them a place to stay, cooked them meals, brought them armloads of fresh bread every morning and has been trying to find them jobs.

But when it came to talking about World War II, this is what he said: “The real disaster started when the Russians invaded. The Russians were worse than the Germans.”

“The Germans,” he said, “did not hurt ordinary people.”

My first reaction fell somewhere between disappointment and silent outrage: How could this farmer be so kind and so blind? How could he say the Germans didn’t hurt “ordinary people” when they murdered millions of Jews right here in Poland? The biggest death camps were in Poland, and the more I thought about it, the more I was shocked by what the farmer said.

But then I realized he and I were actually engaging in a similar type of thinking.

He couldn’t stop obsessing about Russia, which occupied Poland during World War II and controlled it for many decades afterward, and is now dropping bombs just a few miles from the border. And I couldn’t stop thinking about the Holocaust. Neither of us had lived through all that history ourselves — the trauma was handed down to us from our families — but both of us were trapped in the past.

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Ukrainian officials seize cars, property and other assets belonging to a Putin ally, Viktor Medvedchuk.

Officials in Lviv, Ukraine, announced on Thursday that they had seized significant property and assets belonging to Viktor Medvedchuk , a wealthy pro-Russia Ukrainian politician who was captured by security forces this week.

Mr. Medvedchuk, a close friend of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, and a figure in the U.S. investigation into Russian electoral meddling , had once acted as a mediator of sorts between Russia and Ukraine.

Mr. Medvedchuk was under house arrest and awaiting trial for treason when Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. He went into hiding early in the war and was detained earlier this week. His net worth was reported as $620 million in 2021.

According to the State Bureau of Investigation , items seized from Mr. Medvedchuk included “26 cars, 30 plots of land, 23 houses, 32 apartments 17 parking spaces and a motor yacht,” in addition to capital shares belonging to Mr. Medvedchuk and his wife, Oksana Marchenko. Another of his yachts and additional real estate assets were seized earlier in the month.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has offered to trade Mr. Medvedchuk for Ukrainian prisoners of war. The Kremlin declined the offer, and distanced itself from the situation.

“He had no backstage relationship with Russia,” the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry S. Peskov, said of Mr. Medvedchuk on Wednesday, Reuters reported .

It is unclear if Mr. Medvedchuk will stand trial for the charges he faced before the conflict began.

Andrew Higgins

A Soviet-era air defense system arrives in Ukraine, hiding in plain sight.

DOBRA, Slovakia — Driving back to his village near the Ukrainian border last Thursday, the mayor had to stop to let a train pass, and assumed he wouldn’t have to wait long. But the flatbed wagons, stacked high with military equipment, just kept coming. He waited for nearly half an hour.

“It was a very long train, much longer than usual,” recalled Mikolas Csoma, the mayor of Dobra, a previously sleepy village in eastern Slovakia that, over the past month, has become a key artery funneling weapons and ammunition into Ukraine by rail from the West.

The train that delayed Mr. Csoma’s drive home was not only unusually long but also signaled a singular escalation in Western efforts to help Ukraine defend itself. It carried an air defense system made up of 48 surface-to-air missiles, four launchers and radars to guide the rockets to their targets, which in Ukraine means Russian warplanes and missiles.

As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia vows to fight the war to its “full completion” and his forces regroup for an expected push in Ukraine’s east, NATO countries, including the United States, are scrambling to keep the weapons flowing and bulk up the country’s defenses.

Bolstering Ukraine’s long-range air defense capabilities is seen as especially critical. Ukraine already had its own S-300 and other air defense systems, but some of these have been destroyed, leaving Russia with a large degree of freedom to hit Ukrainian targets from the air with warplanes and cruise missiles.

Increasingly desperate to reverse this imbalance, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has repeatedly pleaded with NATO to “close the sky over Ukraine” by imposing a no-fly zone. But NATO has been unwilling to send its own warplanes into Ukraine .

Instead, the United States offered Slovakia, a fellow NATO member, a substitute battery of American-made Patriot missiles if it would “donate” its aging S-300 system to Ukraine.

Andrea Kannapell

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported that two children injured in a strike on the Kramatorsk railway station a week ago had died, bringing the total death toll to 59, including seven children. On Twitter, the ministry posted an image of a blood-soaked stuffed horse, and said Ukraine’s government would send “a bloody children’s toy” to the United Nations “as proof of this barbaric crime.”

Michael Crowley

Biden says he is still deciding whether to send a U.S. official to Kyiv.

President Biden acknowledged on Thursday that he might send a senior U.S. official to Kyiv, a day after reports emerged about a White House debate on the subject.

“We’re making that decision now,” Mr. Biden told reporters before boarding Air Force One for a trip to North Carolina.

Given the enormous security requirements for the president or vice president in a war zone, it is unlikely that either Mr. Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris would travel to the barricaded Ukrainian capital, U.S. officials say . But another top official, such as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken or Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, might more easily make the symbolic trip.

Spokesmen for both Mr. Blinken and Mr. Austin on Thursday said they had no travel plans to announce. At a daily press briefing, however, the State Department spokesman, Ned Price, noted that Mr. Blinken speaks several times a week to his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba. Mr. Price also noted that the men have met in person twice since Russia invaded Ukraine: last week at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels and at the Ukraine-Poland border last month.

The Russian retreat from the Kyiv area and recent visits to the capital by European leaders, including a surprise weekend trip by the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, have prompted discussions about sending a senior American there to demonstrate U.S. support.

Such a trip would involve challenging logistics. British media reported that Mr. Johnson traveled by a combination of car, train, helicopter and military plane.

Mr. Price also said that U.S. diplomats who were evacuated from Ukraine in February remain across the border in Poland. He said the United States was “constantly evaluating and re-evaluating the safety and the security situation” in Ukraine and hoped to restore a diplomatic presence there “as soon as it would be safe and practical to have U.S. diplomats on the ground there.”

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In his nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made only a passing reference to the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet that Ukraine says it hit with a missile strike, and that Russia says was damaged by a fire and sank while being towed to port. In listing those who have defended Ukraine since Russia invaded, Zelensky acknowledged “those who have shown that Russian ships can go to the bottom only.”

Jeré Longman and Erin Schaff

Tensions Over the Ukraine War Deepen the Chill Near the North Pole

BARENTSBURG, Norway — At first glance, Sergey Gushchin, 50, is perhaps not a man one would assume to be the Russian consul general at the world’s northernmost diplomatic mission: ponytail, bluejeans, bass player in a punk band.

Yet on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located between mainland Norway and the North Pole, it has long been a point of pride to distinguish people from governments. Russians, Ukrainians and Norwegians have lived side by side for decades in this isolated and extreme wilderness known mostly for polar bears and a rapidly warming climate, not for divisive politics.

There is a saying in the high Arctic that if your snowmobile breaks down, no one asks for your nationality before helping to repair it. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has echoed at the top of the world, threatening longstanding personal and professional relationships, cultural interactions and even friendly sports rivalries.

The Svalbard tourist board has called for a boycott of Russian state-owned businesses in the coal mining settlement of Barentsburg. Mr. Gushchin, until now considered an inclusive, moderating figure, has surprised and angered many with comments concerning the Russian invasion and an accusation that Norwegian news media provide mostly “fake news.”

Timofey Rogozhin, the former top Russian tourist official in Barentsburg, who left his job last year, now spends considerable time on Telegram, countering Russian propaganda about the invasion. Calling himself a dissident, he describes atrocities committed in Ukrainian towns as “not mistakes but crimes.”

“Svalbard is a place where people from all different countries have managed to get along peacefully,” said Elizabeth Bourne, an American who is director of the Spitsbergen Artists Center in Longyearbyen, the primarily Norwegian transportation, commerce, research and university hub of Svalbard. “This situation is in danger of putting an end to that. I think that would be a tragedy.”

Longyearbyen is about 30 miles northeast of Barentsburg and is inhabited by roughly 2,500 residents from 50 nations. Cultural exchanges involving singing and dancing, and sports exchanges involving games like chess and basketball have been ongoing between Barentsburg and Longyearbyen since the Soviet era.

Their longevity is made more remarkable by the lack of a road between the towns. Travel must be done by snowmobile, boat or helicopter.

“Maybe people of Longyearbyen wouldn’t like to see me, but they still like to see people of Barentsburg,” Mr. Gushchin said.

A 1920 treaty gave Norway sovereignty over Svalbard. But other nations that signed the treaty, including the Soviet Union/Russia, have been granted equal rights to conduct such commercial activities as mining, scientific research and tourism.

The Russian consulate in Barentsburg overlooks the Green Fjord and a kind of outdoor museum of the Soviet past: a bust of Lenin, a Cyrillic sign proclaiming “Communism is our goal,” refurbished Stalinist apartment blocks and smokestacks that belch sulfurous coal at the local power plant.

Once, more than 1,000 people lived here. Now there are only about 370, two-thirds of them Ukrainian, Mr. Gushchin said. Most miners are from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, which has close ties to Russia. It is the area where fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists began in 2014. Others from the region work in tourism and other service jobs.

A number of Russians and Ukrainians approached by a New York Times reporter on Wednesday refused to discuss politics. But Natalia Maksimishina, a Russian tour guide, criticized Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, referring to possible war crimes committed by Russian forces and saying, “I hope to see him next in The Hague.”

Barentsburg is essentially operated by Trust Arktikugol, a Russian state-run mining enterprise. The boycott called for by the Svalbard tourist board recommends that money not be spent in the town’s hotel, Red Bear pub and brewery, restaurants or souvenir shop.

Barentsburg seemed mostly empty on Wednesday, except for clots of tourists arriving on a small ship. Before the pandemic, tourism brought in more money than coal, Mr. Gushchin said. Now, he added, Trust Arktikugol loses “big money” weekly. Many tourists who do visit bring their own food and leave quickly, he said.

Critics of the boycott say it hurts the Russian government less than local people in Barentsburg, most of them Ukrainian. Credit cards issued by Russian banks don’t work in the Norwegian financial system amid international sanctions. Flights are difficult to schedule.

In a light moment during an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Gushchin lamented that his band’s solo guitarist had moved away. “When you have only a bass player and a drummer, it resembles more like punk, not rock,” he said.

In a more serious moment, Mr. Gushchin put logs on a fire in the consulate’s reception area, but did not attempt to thaw the sudden chill between him and many on Svalbard.

He stood by debunked remarks he made in English in early April to Nettavisen, a Norwegian online newspaper. He told the outlet that buildings in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol had been destroyed not by Russian projectiles but by a Ukrainian battalion with Nazi sympathies. And that a pregnant woman photographed outside of a besieged hospital was not a patient.

Asked by Nettavisen whether he felt obliged to make such remarks in his official capacity, Mr. Gushchin said they also reflected his opinion. Otherwise, he said, he would have to resign his post immediately. On Wednesday, Mr. Gushchin said, “I saw that it really touched feelings of many Norwegians, but I told them what I think.”

His remarks to Nettavisen were jarring to many, who found them sharply contrasting with Mr. Gushchin’s position as a subdeacon in the Russian Orthodox Church. Last August, he helped perform the liturgy at Svalbard Church in Longyearbyen, a parish of the Church of Norway. Siv Limstrand, the Lutheran pastor at Svalbard Church, said she had previously considered Mr. Gushchin to be “very friendly, easygoing, nonformal, extending communication and cooperation.”

“People get disappointed, but he is a state official,” Ms. Limstrand said. “We can’t really expect something different from him. But a little more diplomacy, I think, could have been within reach.”

Having arrived in Barentsburg in November 2018, Mr. Gushchin awaits his successor, saying he and his wife are eager to return to Moscow to see their 22-year-old daughter and his 82-year-old mother. Perhaps, many who know him on Svalbard say privately, that is why he dares not contradict Mr. Putin.

Clearly, Mr. Gushchin is sensitive to optics. On Wednesday, he declined to be photographed standing beside a taxidermied polar bear in the consulate, saying it would convey a misleading symbol of Russian aggression.

He also said he would not attend a planned cultural exchange in Longyearbyen on May 21 so as “not to provoke anybody.”

“There are a lot of Russian and Ukrainian compatriots and also Norwegians who won’t be very happy if I take part,” Mr. Gushchin said.

When he took the posting on Svalbard, Mr. Gushchin said, he considered it a “dream” job, one that has been “a big adventure.” But he also said he is ready to return to Russia.

With a sigh, then a laugh, he said he hoped the invasion of Ukraine did not become “something more ugly and global.” If World War III breaks out “and we’re stuck here,” he said with gallows humor, “it will be difficult to go home.”

Anton Troianovski

Russian warship sinks after Ukraine claims to have hit it with missiles.

A Russian warship that Ukraine said it had hit with a missile strike sank in the Black Sea on Thursday while being towed to port in a storm, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The ministry said the guided-missile cruiser, the Moskva — the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet — had “lost its stability due to damage to the hull from the detonation of ammunition” from a fire.

“In stormy sea conditions, the ship sank,” the Defense Ministry said in a short statement, according to Russian news agencies.

The loss of one of the Russian Navy’s largest and most powerful ships, named after the Russian capital, was a major setback for the Kremlin and a victory for Ukraine as the 50-day-old war appeared to be entering a new phase. Russia has massed troops in the country’s east and appears to be poised for a new offensive there after withdrawing from the north and the region around the capital, Kyiv.

Ukrainian officials had said their forces hit the ship with missiles, but Moscow acknowledged only the fire and the detonation of ammunition. Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, said earlier on Thursday that President Vladimir V. Putin had been briefed on the situation.

The ship could carry 16 long-range cruise missiles and typically had a crew of about 500 sailors. It was also outfitted with modern air defense systems, making its loss — if Ukraine did indeed strike the ship — an embarrassment for Russia’s military, which has invested billions of dollars into modernizing its weaponry.

If the loss of the ship stemmed from an accidental fire, as the Defense Ministry suggested, the episode would become one of the most striking examples of the miscues and poor discipline that appear to have plagued Russia’s invasion from the start.

The Russian Defense Ministry did not acknowledge any casualties, asserting in its statement that the ship’s crew had been evacuated to “ships of the Black Sea fleet that were in the area.” There was no independent confirmation of that claim.

On Tuesday, the head of Odesa’s military forces, Maxim Marchenko, said on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had struck the ship with anti-ship Neptune missiles.

Although military analysts said the loss of the ship was not likely to alter the course of the war, it was likely to offer a morale boost for Ukrainian forces. In addition, an attack by the Neptune missile systems, if confirmed, would be a significant sign of Ukraine’s military capability and could serve as a deterrent to other Russian naval attacks.

Though Moscow has not confirmed the ship was hit by missiles, a half dozen other Russian ships in the Black Sea moved farther away from the Ukrainian coast on Thursday, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday, lending credence to the claim.

For its part, Ukraine seized the opportunity to mock the invader.

“Russian warship, what are you sinking?” the government wrote on Twitter .

Nadav Gavrielov

Britain freezes assets of two Russian businessmen close to Abramovich.

The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it would impose sanctions on Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich, two Russian oligarchs who it says have close ties to Roman Abramovich .

Mr. Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club, is close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and has himself been targeted with a robust set of British sanctions that have led him to seek to sell the team.

In announcing the move , which would freeze assets estimated to be worth up to £10 billion, or roughly $13 billion, the U.K. government said it amounted to “the largest asset freeze action in U.K. history.”

“We are tightening the ratchet on Putin’s war machine and targeting the circle of people closest to the Kremlin,” said Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary. “We will keep going with sanctions until Putin fails in Ukraine. Nothing and no one is off the table.”

The new measures also include a travel ban on Mr. Davidovich.

Mr. Tenenbaum is listed as a director on Chelsea Football Club’s website. The British announcement states that Mr. Tenenbaum took control of Ervington Investments Ltd., an investment company tied to Mr. Abramovich, shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Mr. Davidovich then took over the company from Mr. Tenenbaum in March, according to the announcement.

The club declined to comment on the new sanctions.

European countries have been stepping up sanctions against Russia in recent days, and are also considering a larger ban on Russian oil imports, a step they have been reluctant to take because of the potential for a wider impact on the global economy.

Earlier in the week, authorities in Jersey, a British territory, froze $7 billion in assets believed to be tied to Mr. Abramovich.

The French government published a list this week of dozens of properties, many of them on the French Riviera, that it said it would be freezing as part of its sanctions on Russia. While the owners of the assets can still access the properties, they are forbidden to sell or rent them.

A Russian billionaire's superyacht has been impounded in Hamburg, Germany. Harsh sanctions in response to the invasion of #Ukraine brought the estimated $600-750 million yacht Dilbar out of 'offshore concealment', and into the hands of authorities. pic.twitter.com/GYkH6SmQk2 — German Embassy (@GermanyinUSA) April 14, 2022

In Germany, authorities recently announced the seizure of the superyacht Dilbar after determining that it was tied to Alisher Usmanov, a Russian oligarch, according to The Associated Press. The United States previously targeted Mr. Usmanov in a batch of sanctions announced last month that designated the superyacht as blocked property, estimating its value to be between $600 and $735 million and noting that it was one of the world’s biggest superyachts, outfitted with two helipads and an indoor pool.

Aurelien Breeden contributed reporting from Paris.

An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of money Britain said it would freeze in Russian assets. It was up to £10 billion, which is the equivalent of about $13 billion, not $13 million.

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David E. Sanger

The C.I.A. director says ‘potential desperation’ could tempt Putin to use nuclear weapons.

The director of the C.I.A. said on Thursday that Vladimir V. Putin’s “potential desperation” to extract the semblance of a victory in Ukraine might tempt him to order the use of a tactical or low-yield nuclear weapon, publicly discussing for the first time a concern that has coursed through the White House during the seven weeks of conflict.

The director, William J. Burns, served as American ambassador to Russia and is the member of the administration who has dealt most often with Mr. Putin. He said the potential detonation of a limited nuclear weapon — even as a warning shot — was a possibility that the United States remained “very concerned” about. But Mr. Burns quickly cautioned that so far, despite Mr. Putin’s frequent invocation of nuclear threats, he had seen no “practical evidence” of the kinds of military deployments or movement of weapons that would suggest such a development was imminent.

“Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they’ve faced so far, militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons,” Mr. Burns said. “We don’t.”

Mr. Burns’s comments came in response to a question from retired Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, after a speech Mr. Burns delivered at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Both President Biden and his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, have acknowledged that the White House has been debating sending a high-level official to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in a show of support for the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain recently took a secret trip into the capital by train.

Mr. Sullivan said that the White House had briefly considered having Mr. Biden go to Ukraine, but as soon as it became clear “what kind of footprint that would require, what kind of assets that would take from the Ukrainians as well as the U.S.” to keep the president safe, the idea was rejected.

When pressed about reports that Mr. Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken or Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin might go to Kyiv, Mr. Sullivan declined to discuss it. Mr. Biden told reporters no decision had been made to send an envoy.

Mr. Sullivan also said that in coming days the United States would announce a crackdown on countries and companies violating Western sanctions imposed on Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in late February.

Alan Rappeport

Moody’s warns that Russia’s bond payments in rubles could lead to default.

Russia’s repayment of foreign currency bonds in rubles could be considered a default if it does not reverse course and pay in dollars, Moody’s, the ratings agency, said on Thursday.

The warning from Moody’s comes as Russia is inching closer to its first failure to pay foreign debt since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, as President Vladimir V. Putin faces sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies in Europe and Asia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Moody’s said that Russia still has until May 4, when the grace period ends, to make the payments in dollars and avoid a default on two bonds that are maturing in 2022 and 2042. The payment terms of the original bond contracts required dollars and did not include a provision to allow for another currency.

“Moody’s view is that investors did not obtain the foreign-currency contractual promise on the payment due date,” the ratings agency said.

Earlier this week , S&P Global placed Russia under a “selective default” rating after the Russian government said last week that it had repaid about $650 million of dollar-denominated debt in rubles .

Russia has said that any default would be “artificial” because its foreign-currency reserves have been immobilized by the sanctions and argued that payments in rubles should be a suitable alternative.

Michael Schwirtz

The Russian Defense Ministry says its naval flagship Moskva has sunk in the Black Sea while being towed in a storm. Ukraine had claimed it hit the cruiser with a missile strike. Moscow denied the ship had been hit by missiles, but acknowledged it was on fire.

Dan Bilefsky

Putin admits sanctions have hurt Russia’s oil and gas sector.

As the European Union mulls banning Russian oil products to further punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin acknowledged on Thursday that sanctions were already disrupting Russia’s lucrative oil and gas sector, undermining exports and raising costs for the industry.

Speaking with government officials via video link from his residence near Moscow, Mr. Putin said that payments for Russian energy exports were under strain and that banks from “unfriendly countries” had been “delaying the transfer of funds.”

“As we have said many times, the most urgent problem here is the disruption of export logistics,” he said.

The European Union, the world’s biggest trading bloc, has long resisted a ban on Russian oil because of its huge costs for European economies, in particular Germany’s, and its potential to jolt European politics and increase energy prices.

But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spurred a growing consensus among the bloc’s officials and ambassadors that Europe should no longer be financing the Kremlin through energy purchases and that it should reduce dependence on Russian energy by expanding alternative sources of supply.

A defiant Mr. Putin told Russian officials that the attempt by western countries to replace Russian energy sources would reverberate in the global economy and could be “extremely painful” for those seeking to sideline Russian suppliers.

Moreover, he said, there is a dearth of available natural gas on the global market. He predicted that Europe’s turn to energy deliveries from other countries, in particular the United States, would undermine European living standards and competitiveness and result in higher energy costs for consumers.

“There is no reasonable alternative to Russian gas in Europe,” he said.

While it is possible for countries in Western Europe to find alternative energy supplies, Mr. Putin said, it would take time.

Rising gasoline prices, driven in part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have led President Biden to embrace oil, though he came into office on a promise to tackle the planet’s climate crisis.

On Tuesday, Mr. Biden traveled to Iowa to announce that the Environmental Protection Agency would temporarily lift regulations prohibiting the summertime use of an ethanol-gasoline blend that contributes to smog during the warmer months. Mr. Biden said his administration was going to waive the regulation to lower the price of gasoline for many Americans.

Alluding to such moves, Mr. Putin observed that Western countries appeared to be increasingly ready to abandon their green agendas and to continue their reliance on fossil fuels with a high carbon footprint. He suggested that Russia was being used as a pretext for the United States and its allies to roll back policies aimed at encouraging green energy that had proven to have a high economic cost.

“Now they have a wonderful excuse to cover up their own miscalculations and blame everything on Russia,” he said.