The Moscow Defense Department yesterday released the first images of the crew of the cruiser Moskva, which was hit by a Ukrainian missile and sunk off the coast of Odessa on Thursday evening. There would also be Commander Kuprin given up for dead: so an old video?
The Moscow Defense released on Saturday the first images of the crew of the cruiser Moskva, which was hit by a Ukrainian missile and sunk Thursday night off the coast of Odessa.
In a 26second video, the commander of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, filmed in the port of Sevastopol in Crimea, can be seen greeting and thanking around 240 sailors who allegedly survived the explosion on board the ship before 6.52 p.m Clock on April 13: By this time, in fact, some ships were already helping the Russian cruiser.
However, the defense did not provide any information about when the parade would take place, nor how many victims there would be: the Moscow General Staff still considers the theory of the accident due to an accidental explosion to be good to deny the enemy success: according to the Russians, it should the injured hull may have sunk due to a storm while being towed to Sevastopol. One explanation failed to convince observers: the weather conditions were not such as to wipe out the ship.
There were 510 crew members on board, so according to expert HI Sutton, around half would be missing: some could be injured, others could have been rescued by a Turkish ship, while some, he explains, lost their lives.
Also in the video posted on Twitter and Facebook is a person who looks very similar to Commander Anton Kuprin, who has the rank of Captain 1st Class and holds a command position: however, according to available information, Kuprin would be on board when the explosion happened of the Moskva died, whether by the detonation or because he died as captain and sank with the ship. Therefore, according to Sutton, the video could also be dated before the sinking, otherwise Kuprin would still be alive.
It is possible that the parade did not go quite as it was portrayed, says the expert. Believable that the video is fake, but if it were, more sailors should have been present. Still, it is plausible that Kuprin survived, and with it more sailors than previously thought.
Radio Svoboda a station of the Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty organization, which is funded by the American government in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East has found confirmation of the first victim: it would be Ensign Ivan Vakhrushev, head of operational security of das Ship. His wife Varvara Vakhrusheva allegedly admitted that the man would die on duty.
April 17, 2022 (Change April 17, 2022 | 13:32)
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