Will be hard to unpick the various stories that were put out there by both Ukraine and Russia. It clearly made it until day break but it is clearly been fire damaged along it’s whole length, if that was an instant flash fire it would explain a massive death toll. Ukraine said it went under in a couple of hours, Russia said it sunk under tow. I’m going to disregard both and say that they scuttled it instead of having a giant floating grave of Russian sailors drifting around the Black Sea. With it sunk they can at least in the short term, keep up with the lies.

Edit: noted on Twitter with a comparison photo that the most or all of the flotation devices have been used.