Wasn’t the Moskva known to stand/patrol well outside from the rest of the fleet, presumably to be outside of the range of shore based missiles?
From another story...
“Russian Navy ships in the northern Black Sea moved south as the Moskva battled a severe fire, the US official said.”
Seems like if it were an accident they ships would be moving to support rather than running away.
Dunno about that, but because of those massive box launchers installed on deck, Moskva was always horrifically vulnerable until it emptied them and that was by design. The launchers could not be heavily armored or the ship would be too top heavy. The original design brief for the ship was to fire them all at an enemy formation in a first strike or if approached by an existential threat, to fire them all before it could get there. Think ‘PT Boat, only with massive capital ship killing missiles instead of torpedoes’ and you have the idea of how vulnerable the thing was until it got all of the missiles away.