Also, somewhat inevitably over the past 30-some years, anyone in Russia aware of navy issues would have a kind of low expectation of the condition of the fleet. See elsewhere on this site: Kuznetsov saga. Or for something far more tragic and horrifying remember the Kursk. So hearing that one of the vessels while actively engaged in war operations had a major malfunction that left it a total write-off is not as “shameful” as, like HMS_Irruncible mentions, being got the better of by those bloody peasants.