The official version of the Russian authorities is that the ship detonated ammunition and it sank during towing to Sevastopol, and sailors were evacuated.
Yalta resident Dmytro Shkrebets is the father of a sailor-conscript , who served on the missile cruiser “Moscow”, but during its sinking “disappeared”. According to “Medusa”, the man said that he was contacted by the families of three other sailors, who were also conscripts, and are now considered “missing”.
“My son-in-law (Yegor Shkrebets – ed.), As I was told by the direct commanders of the cruiser” Moscow “, is not among the dead and wounded and is listed as missing. Guys, disappeared in the open sea ?! – said Shkrebets. – After my attempts to clarify the details of the incident, the cruiser commander and his deputy stopped communicating. I asked directly why you officers are alive and my son, a conscript, died? “
<> Skrebets, who had pictures in support of the occupying army and the thesis that “Ukraine should not exist”, also published a photo of his son and his friends, taken a few days before the “disappearance”.
Later, Skrebets published a new post in which he said that he was contacted by three other families of conscripts – from Yalta and Alupka (occupied Crimea) and St. Petersburg (Russia). Their children also served in “Moscow”, and later “disappeared”. All relatives applied to the Simferopol military registration and enlistment office to tell them what had happened to their relatives.
Also yesterday, the mother of another conscript from the cruiser said that about 40 people were killed in the incident, many wounded with severed limbs. She said that crew members had signed a non-disclosure agreement before boarding the warship.
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Recall, in the evening of April 14, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the cruiser “Moscow” sank. It was noted there that the ship, which had already been damaged as a result of the storm, capsized.
It is the cruiser Moscow, which Ukrainian defenders attacked on Wednesday April 13, became the most expensive military loss of the Russian Federation in war with Ukraine .
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