In any case, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video that shows crew members. Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Yevmenov met with sailors in Sevastopol, the official said on Saturday. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has its main base in the Ukrainian peninsula city of Crimea, which was annexed in 2014.
The nearly half-minute clip features dozens of young men in black uniforms. How many there are exactly is difficult to estimate due to sequences that were edited together. On Twitter, some users said that it could not be the approximately 500 crew members who would have been on the “Moskva” at the time of the accident.