The parents of several Russian conscripts told reporters that after the death of the cruiser, Moscow did not know from the Russian Defense Ministry the fate of their children who served here.
A Yalta resident, Dmitry Shkrebets, who first reported that his sailor son was included in the list of missing persons, on Monday, April 18, published another post on the social network VKontakte.
According to him, families from Yalta, Alupka and St. Petersburg contacted him. Petersburg, “whose children are also missing, conscripts also.” “Today together we write applications to the local military enlistment office, tomorrow will be at the Simferopol military commission,” Shkrebets wrote.
The Agency’s publication on April 17 found another post on VKontakte with a mention of a missing soldier from the Moscow cruiser. It was written by a resident of St. Petersburg Ulyana Tarasova. This post has now been deleted.
The monologue of another woman, whose son, according to her, was a conscript in Moscow, was published by Novaya Gazeta – Europe. Her son contacted her the day after the cruiser sank and said the ship had been hit by missiles. “About forty people died. Some people are missing. And many people were injured,” he recounted to his son.
Journalists from the Radio Liberty Scheme project contacted the wife of 41-year-old midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev, who served in Moscow. He told them he found out about his wife’s death “from command.” According to him, 27 crew members of the cruiser are missing.
On the eve of April 17, Dmitry Shkrebets wrote on his Vkontakte page that his son Yegor was serving on the Moscow cruiser. According to Dmitry, the “cruiser commander” told him about the loss of his son, who then stopped talking.
Egor Shkrebets, according to his father, was called for service in July 2021, and on the cruiser Moskva he was a ship’s cook. Radio Liberty found the mention of chef Egor Shkrebets in the December issue of the Baltic Fleet newspaper Strazh Baltika. The photo in the article shows the same young man as in the post by Dmitry Shkrebets.
His wife told The Insider that they had not successfully tried to find out about their son’s fate in the military unit and the local FSB branch. “We went to the unit, the commander came out, raised his hands and said:” I have nothing to tell you. “I said:” Where is my son? ” – and he:” Well, somewhere in the sea. . ” The husband began to resent: “What does the sea mean? Where are you?” “But I’m not really there.” “These commanders are not on the ship,” he said.
Recall that the attack on the enemy cruiser Moscow was made on April 13. At the same time, the Russian Defense Ministry claims that the cruiser Moskva did not sink as a result of “detonation of ammunition” and the fire and “maintains buoyancy . ” However, the department later admitted that the flagship of the Russian fleet had sunk, but did not report any losses.
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Source: korrespondent
