http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061604/posts

For what it’s worth;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2008_Russian-Georgian_naval_skirmish

Fog of war is still laying on the water. Agreed details are that 4 Georgian patrol craft engaged the Soviet, er…. Russian Black seas fleet.
One PC was sunk and another damaged. It was claimed a hit started a fire on the Russian cruiser. Russians say not, and since at night a missile launch can look like a fire under the right circumstances, they might not be lying. The accounts say early in the morning, which I assume to be zero dark thirty or thereabouts. Those 40 year old tube launchers were famous for having burning fuel left in the launch tube after the Missiles were down range. That is why they didn’t use multiple box launchers like everyone else. Potential problems with cook offs.
Or they could have taken a hit. Soviet ships were not designed to take battle damage.