Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

it appears the Moskva was hit during fairly rough weather.  rough seas can greatly decrease the survival chances of ships that suffered loss of watertightness.   I suspect even a ship of her size with good damage control might struggle to survive if the sea is rough enough.

regarding damage control,  the russian navy follow the same approach to damage control that the imperial Japanese navy used.   Damage control is considered a technical specialty to be handled by specialist commissioned officers and warrant officers.   Most of the crew do not participate except as grunt man power.   This probably stem from the same military cultural limitation that caused the russian army to not pursue a corp of long serving NCOs.

Soviet warships tend to adopt layouts that would be considered unacceptable for damage resistance perspective by western navies. For example, the entire S-300 surface to air missile battery on the larger kirov class are actually housed in one single giant compartment in the hull, and not internally compartmentalized for flooding abs damage resistance.   This makes these vessels rather vulnerable to internal flooding, especially in rough seas where free surface effect in large compartment can quickly rob the ship of stability.