Relatives of some crew members of the sunken Black Sea cruiser Moskva wrote on the main Russian social media VKontakte that their family members who were on the ship have disappeared. This was reported by the Ukrainska Pravda information site Meduza. Among other things, Dmytro Shkrebets claimed that his son Yegor served on the cruiser and was included in the “missing” list after the sinking. “My son, conscript, as I was informed by the direct commanders of the cruiser Moskva, is not among the dead and wounded and is listed as missing: missing in the open sea?” wrote Skrebets, “after my attempts to clarify The Details of the incident, the commander of the cruiser and his deputy stopped communicating with me. I asked directly why you officers are alive and my newly hired son is dead? “. The young sailor’s father added that on July 2, 2021 his son was drafted into military service and served on the cruiser as a cook on board. The man urged users of the social network to spread his message, “so that these terrible tragedy will not be covered up”, and said that he intends to devote his life to the “truth of this story”. At the same time, he posted on his social network page cheering the Russian army and saying that “Ukraine does not exist should”. Shkrebets also published photos of his son and his companions, which he says were taken four days before the disappearance. The original post was removed, but the man later reposted the text with the comment “It will be removed soon”.
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”.