On the Russian cruiser Moskva, which sank in Black Sea waters last Thursday, 40 Russian sailors are said to have died and many more injured, mostly with mutilated limbs. According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, the international version of the historical Russian independent newspaper for which Anna Politovskaya worked, the mother of one surviving crew member is reported, while Russian official sources still do not reveal data on the casualties. Ukraine claims it hit the ship with rockets, while Russia says an accidental explosion on board caused the shipwreck.
The surviving sailor reportedly contacted his mother on April 15, a day after the cruiser sank, and said that the ship had been hit by a Ukrainian missile launched from the ground. “He called me and cried because of what he saw the woman told Novaya Gazeta, asking not to reveal any details that could make him recognizable he was scared. It is clear that not all of them survived. They then attempted to extinguish the fire themselves. that the cruiser was hit by three Neptune missiles.” According to him, about forty people died in the explosions, others were missing, and many were injured with severed limbs. In the past few hours, Radio Liberty also published the testimonies of family members of seafarers, the wife of Ivan Vakhrushev, who allegedly died on the ship, and the father of Yegor Dmitrievich Shkrebets, who was reported missing, a conscript who like his father laments studied cooking in Yalta and, as he puts it, “shouldn’t have been there”. About 100 to 150 sailors can be seen queuing in front of Admiral Evmenov, the head of the Russian Navy in Crimea, in a video released today by the Russian Defense Ministry. “It is not known how many of them were actually part of the Moskva crew observes Gazeta which has sailed with 400500 people on board in recent years”.
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