Moreover, most of the missing Russian sailors, according to their relatives, are in active service.
Russian authorities continue to remain silent about the number of crew and the victims of the cruiser Moskva that sank in the Black Sea. The Ministry of Defense of the aggressor country had previously said that the crew had been “evacuated by full force”, but in the Russian media there was more and more information about Moscow’s dead and missing sailors. Athletistic telling details.
“The positive outcome is almost zero”
In the sunken flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, the cruiser Moskva, 37 crew were killed, about 100 were injured, the number of missing is unknown. About this writes the publication Meduza, citing a source close to the command of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation.
In total, according to him, about 500 people were on the ship. According to various estimates, the number of crew in Moscow ranged from 416 to 758 people. The description of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense indicates the number of 680 people, but now there is no such page here.
Ukraine reported a rocket attack on Moscow and a fire on a cruiser on April 13. It happened in the Black Sea about 150 kilometers from Odessa in the Snake Island area. On the night of April 14, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation acknowledged the fact of the fire. The agency said the bullets exploded on the ship for no apparent reason.
On the afternoon of April 14, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Russian side claimed that the cruiser remained afloat and moving under its own power in Sevastopol. But hours later, the Ministry of Defense said the occupiers had sunk Moscow while being dragged towards the port because of a storm. Russia did not report the cause of the fire.
At the same time, the Russian side said the cruiser’s crew had been evacuated “by full force.” However, many Russian media sources, including relatives of the sailors, say there have been deaths among Moscow’s crew as a result of the explosion.
On the third day, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published a video of a “meeting with the crew of the sunken cruiser Moskva.” However, this raises more questions. The video has no sound, there are several dozen sailors and they have no traces of any injuries and there are smiles, and on the mourning crown near the monument there is an inscription “Moscow, the ship and the sailors.”
When personnel are removed, the commander is obliged to report on the composition of the crew and report on the dead and injured, so there is no sound in the first frames of the videos, Novaya Gazeta caught the attention. Europe. The publication also claims that the deceased Moscow commander, Anton Kuprin, appears in the first frames.
The commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Admiral Igor Osipov, despite the statement that the crew is meeting with the leadership of this fleet, was not at this meeting, Novaya Gazeta said. Ukrainian intelligence reported that he was arrested immediately after Moscow’s death.
Telegram channel Volya says they partially restored the sound to the video and shot it 2-3 weeks before the ship sank. You can hear traditional words in common situations.
“At 0: 28-0: 32 seconds, the captain of the second rank ended the report to Admiral Nikolai Evmenov with the words:“ I have no complaints, statements, proposals, ”the portal wrote.
So far, Russian journalists considered independent have published detailed information about two dead sailors from Moscow and at least five missing.
At the same time, BBC News published comments by a relative of the missing Russian sailors, saying they were responding to the army: “The conscripts could not have been on that ship.” Also, interlocutors of the publication said that in part they were given a list of missing Moscow sailors.
Another interlocutor said that in response to a question about her son’s fate, she received the answer that “almost zero positive result” because the temperature of the sea water “is not compatible with life.”
One of the families of the missing conscript told The Insider that they visited the hospital in Rocky Bay, where, according to them, about 200 injured sailors were brought from the Moscow cruiser.
“We looked at every fire child. I can’t tell you how difficult it was, but I didn’t see mine. There were only two hundred people, and there were over five hundred on the cruiser. Where are the rest? Can’t find,” he said. niya.
Journalists of the Novaya Gazeta edition. Europe spoke to the mother of a conscript sailor who survived the crash of the cruiser. The woman told the publication that shortly after the incident, the child contacted her and told about the deaths of about 40 people.
“The son said that the cruiser was shot from the land, from the Ukrainian side. Just like that, the fire would not have happened. Someone is dead, someone is injured, someone is missing,” said the source.
The wounded, according to her, “mostly with severed limbs”: “Because there are such explosions – both what exploded, and what was hit by rockets.”
Vot Tak TV wrote that it contacted the cruiser’s deputy commander Pavel Vakula, who refused to provide any information about the missing sailors.
Attention! The video contains profanity
“The fuck are you calling me? If you’re a parent, call. Deputy Commander of the cruiser Moskva Pavel Vakula to Vot Tak journalist pic.twitter.com/v4ZPPXc2ah
– Like this (@vottak_tv) April 18, 2022
Footage of the smoldering Moscow appeared
On the night of April 18, photos and videos of the allegedly burning Moscow appeared on the network.
Moscow was reported on 4/15 pic.twitter.com/HstqXYUQJf
– OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 17, 2022
The authenticity of the photos and videos has not yet been confirmed, but experts say they look very convincing and the ship with them is Moscow.
Attention! The video contains profanity
Russian Black Sea Fleet Prj. 712 sea rescue tug Shakhter (SB-922) next to Moskva pic.twitter.com/9LIkERQxLY
– OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 18, 2022
According to Western analysts, judging by the picture, visible damage does not exclude a missile attack.
*** BUMANGKA *** -> https://t.co/JfGRiqMVf6#Moskva Sinking: Photos Reveal A Mighty Russian Navy Ship Burned
Preliminary analysis shows fire in the rear of Vulcan missiles and ahead of S-300 missiles, Possibly it was before a larger explosion
First review, caveats apply, OSINT pic.twitter.com/b4FbBHsxLo
– HI Sutton (@CovertShores) April 17, 2022
The fact that Russian ships moved nearly 200 kilometers off the coast of mainland Ukraine may indicate that Ukrainian Neptune missiles caused Moscow’s death.
What social networks say
To ask, where are the 400 members of the cruiser’s crew, when we can’t find the Minister of Defense for the second month, in my opinion is unethical.
– Stalker (@ValBodin) April 17, 2022
The worst thing about Butcha isn’t that he lost to us, but we don’t know how many people died in the battles for him. The Ministry of Defense does not say any numbers – neither the exact number of survivors, nor the exact number of people involved in the work. https://t.co/d49ViPdV9J
– Gypsynkov (@gypsynkov) April 18, 2022
Why is there a cruiser, no one is lost, there is pic.twitter.com/ZdfNXbZEaQ
– Denis Kazansky (@den_kazansky) April 19, 2022
Yes pic.twitter.com/WXlRvORZ0c
– Ostapenko (@OstAnatoliy) April 18, 2022
How to know the number of missing people?
Some are alive, some are dead, some are missing.– Evgeny Roizman (@roizmangbn) April 18, 2022
The worst thing is that this cruiser participated in the war against Ukraine. It’s really bad.
It is necessary to cry for the murdered Ukrainian children, and not for the racist fighters. https://t.co/2oP6v9VL0a
– Herald of Stability #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@stabilnosti) April 18, 2022
The worst thing is that this is not the last regret of the Russian opposition about the unreasonable loss of a deadly cruiser, tank, missile, aircraft with a crew carrying out criminal orders, killing children and the elderly. https://t.co/bQiM1ip23j
– President Thoughts (@VVP2_0) April 18, 2022
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published a list of names of deceased Ukrainian servicemen.
And the RF Ministry of Defense has not published a list of names of dead Russian servicemen.
And even the only data on the dead is not.
Putin does not care about the Russians.
And officials will keep compensation for the dead.– Prof. Preobrazhensky (@prof_preobr) April 18, 2022
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