Of course, unless it's WAPO interviewing a soldier who mutineed, in which case the global western media conspiracy to cover up events in Ukraine is put on hold for this article for Putinists to jerk off too. Afterwards the conspiracy is reactivated for everything bad that happens to Russia.
Of course I believe anything said by the Russian Defense Ministry and reported by the Iranian press. Not. As to being hit from a Russian warship, I thought those had all been parked 60 miles from the Ukraine shore to avoid being sunk by the Ukrainians.