(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 18 – On the Russian cruiser Moskva, which sank last Thursday in the waters of the Black Sea, 40 Russian sailors were reported to have died, and many others were injured, mostly with mutilated limbs. According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, the international version of the historic Russian independent newspaper for which Anna Politovskaya worked, she is the mother of a surviving crew member, while Russian official sources still do not leak any data on the losses. Ukraine claims to have hit the ship with missiles, while according to Russia an accidental explosion on board caused the shipwreck.
The surviving sailor reportedly contacted his mother on April 15, the day after the cruiser sank, saying that the ship was hit by a Ukrainian missile launched from the ground.
“He called me and cried for what he saw – the woman told Novaya Gazeta asking not to disclose details that could make him recognizable – He was afraid. It is clear that not all of them survived. They tried to put out the fire themselves afterwards. that the cruiser was hit by three Neptune missiles. “
According to his testimony, about forty people died, others were missing and there were many injured with severed limbs in the explosions.
In the past few hours, Radio Liberty also published the testimonies of family members of sailors, the wife of Ivan Vakhrushev, who allegedly died on the ship, and the father of Yegor Dmitrievich Shkrebets, reported missing, a conscript who – his father complains – was studying to become cook in Yalta and, he says, “shouldn’t have been there”. In a video released today by the Russian Defense Ministry, around 100-150 sailors are seen lining up in front of Admiral Evmenov, chief of the Russian navy in Crimea. “It is not known how many of them were actually part of the Moskva crew – observes Gazeta – which in recent years was traveling with 400-500 people on board”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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