The Russian author of the latest article posted on the Internet, Vladislav Goncharov, wrote, referring to the attack maneuver of the Mas-568 against the Soviet cruiser Molotov:

Even moving at the top speed of 43 knots, the ship could cover the three miles in just four minutes. Why cross an enemy's route at the maximum speed of 30 knots and attack from the opposite side? But at a distance of 800 meters, the torpedo should have traveled in one minute and not seven or even five. Also, according to the Soviet report, the MAS-568 attacked from the east, from the left side, and the hit was on the starboard side.

I do not know what the author of the article read about my essay, which he reports in the bibliography, having caused confusion. The Mas-568 was going at maximum speed because, initially attacking Commander Legnani on the left side, faced with the reaction Molotov who, having reversed the course to the west, was firing with all weapons, he was forced to disengage, and then went to the attack of Molotov in a second time on the favorable side with respect to the moonlight. It was for this reason that the Mas-568, without being sighted, attacked the bow and right flank of the Soviet ships, and then at 01.30, at a distance of 800 meters, launched its two torpedoes, one of which hit aft the Molotov shortly after, and not in an interval of "seven to five minutes", allowing Legnani and his crew to observe a strong explosion aft of the cruiser with flames and smoke, which when they ceased, with the enemy ship no longer in sight, was mistakenly believed to have sunk.
In February 1997, the periodical Military History had published the article by Giorgio Pitacco "Italian Mas in the Black Sea", where the author, regarding the attack carried out against the cruiser Molotov from the Mas-568 wrote:

01.20 am - From the shaded area the Mas 568 proceeds at maximum speed for the attack maneuver and, having reached 800 meters, launches torpedoes (two) against the cruiser who, reuniting him, approaches to the left to offer only the stern and maximum volume of fire.
01.27 - The two torpedoes reach the target which is engulfed by a cloud of flames and smoke and is glimpsed sinking.

In 2010 the same magazine published another article by Fabrizio Gatti, entitled Mar Nero, 1942-1943, where exactly the same maneuvering and torpedo launch data written by Pitacco are published: 01.20 and 01.27, which are incorrect, compared to those of the official Italian reports, which I have reported in my articles.
The sighting time was 01.20 and the Russian time, the Italian time was 01.18. The time 01.27 (actually 01.26, see page 89 letter 5 of my essay in academia edu) is the one in which, according to the Russian recording, the Molotov cocktail was hit, while the attack time of Mas. 568 was 01.30.
It is therefore natural that reasoning on the fact that at 01.27 the torpedo was launched from a distance of 800 meters, the cruiser could not be hit after seven or five minutes, but only after about a minute since the Mas-568 had launched the torpedoes at 01.30, to then see the fire of the German plane shot down right at the Molotov at 01.33; fire that died out after four minutes gave the impression that the cruiser had sunk.
These errors have served in the forums, especially in Russia, to comment unfavorably on the attack of the Mas-568. Evidently also Vladislav Goncharov, who covered the article of which he also publishes a map, interpreted the maneuver as an attack and launch of torpedoes against the Molotov immediately after 01.20. Therefore he connected it with the Russian time 01.27 in which the cruiser was hit; and the disparity of schedules led to an interval between 5 and 7 minutes, absolutely non-existent for a torpedo that had a speed of 40 knots. Furthermore, to present the stern, in order to avoid the torpedoes of the Mas-568, the Molotov, turning to starboard, presented the right flank to the Mas where it was hit.

Francesco Mattesini, Rome 22 december 2021