Speaking to @novayagazeta_en , the mother of one of the survivors of the cruiser Mosvka said she told him that three Neptune missiles (not two, as reported by Kiev) hit the ship, killing about 40 sailors and injuring many. Hundreds are still missing.
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"There are many people injured. Mainly with severed limbs".
Sailors from sunken cruiser Moskva contact relatives and tell their stories" Novaya Gazeta. Europe" publishes one of them
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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On 14 April, the Russian Defence Ministry said that the missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet and one of the most legendary ships of the Russian Navy, had died during the war with Ukraine. According to the official version, the Moskva's ammunition exploded, after which the sailors were evacuated and the cruiser retained its buoyancy, but sank while being towed to Sevastopol. The Ukrainian side, on the other hand, claims that the Russian flagship was hit by Neptun missiles with a launch range of up to 280 km. In Sky News, "Moscow" and over 46,000,000 people.
The Russian media, including the official and staunchly pro-state media, have so far only mourned the loss of the flagship itself, while details of the dead sailors remain classified. The Defence Ministry first reported the "complete evacuation", then simply the "release" of the command, but did not even mention the news.
"Novaya Gazeta. Europe" spoke to the mother of a sailor who was enlisted in a Russian town shortly before the war in Ukraine began. We received documentary evidence of the naval conscription, which allows us to consider her story credible. However, the fact that the sailor was on board the Moskva at the time of the explosion cannot be confirmed under wartime conditions. Our heroine's son survived and contacted his mother on 15 April, the day after the loss of the S.S.
We quote the mother's monologue of the Black Sea Fleet sailor, without disclosing names for security reasons.
"My son said that the cruiser was hit from the land, from the Ukrainian side. The fire would not have happened like that. There are dead, injured, missing. My son called me when they were given their phones. They still have their documents and [personal] phones in the patrol car. He calls me and cries about what he saw. It was frightening. It's clear that not everyone survived. They tried to put out the fire with their own resources after the cruiser was hit by three Neptune missiles (Kiev says only two missiles hit it - editor's note). As a mother, I don't know what to say. I am just happy that my son called me and that he is alive and well.
I don't want to advertise it publicly because I would be putting my son at risk ( published by the author of this article - Ed. ). They signed a non-disclosure agreement before they got on the cruiser. You know what I mean too, I'm scared. It's very scary. It's scary, and I don't know how to wait for my son. He's got less than *** [the sailor's service record has been deleted for laundering reasons].
About forty men are dead. Several men missing. And a large number of wounded.
The wounded have mostly severed limbs, because there were these explosions - the two that detonated and the two that were hit by missiles.
When my son called me on the 15th, he was crying. He said, "Mom, I never thought in peacetime I would be in a taco. I won't even tell you in detail what I saw. It's so scary."
I don't know how to survive, how to wait for my son to finish his service, you... I'm like a mother... I just... It's just horrible. And the media, understandably, doesn't cover all the details. Why is that? Because the Ministry of Defense doesn't want to admit Ukraine's defeat. It doesn't want to admit that such a cruiser was sunk.
Earlier, journalists from Radio Liberty's Schemes investigative project found a post × Odnoklassniki devoted to the death of a 41-year-old midshipman, Ivan Vakhrushev. He had served in combat unit number five - that is, as an electrician.
His wife Varvara Vakhrusheva confirmed to the newspaper that the sailor died as a result of the explosion. According to her, she was informed of the serviceman's death on the afternoon of 14 April by the "commander". Ms Vakhrusheva also said that 27 crew members of the cruiser Moskva were missing.
Radio Liberty also draws attention to a post by user Dmitry Shkrebts on the VK social network.
The man says that his son Yegor Shkrebets, a serviceman, was reported missing after the sinking of the cruiser Moskva.
Odnoklassniki post on the death of midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev. Screenshot
"My son, Yegor Dmitrievich Shkrebets, was drafted into the army of the city of Yalta on July 2, 2021. He was assigned to Sevastopol, and after the young fighter course he joined the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the "Black Sea Fleet Missile Commander". Joined as a "ship's cook", supply department.
Between 13.04 and 14.04, the event was resolved <...> This is a lie! A shameless and cynical lie! My NCO, as I learned from the direct commanders of the cruiser "Moscow", is not among the dead and wounded, and is missing. An enlisted man who was not supposed to take part in combat operations is missing," the man wrote.
Yegor Shkrebets, missing conscript. Photo: social media
In December 2021, the Baltic Fleet newspaper The Guardian of the Baltic wrote ® the cook of the cruiser Moskva, Yegor Shkrebts, who had studied to be a cook in Yalta.
On 13 April, Ukrainian authorities said they had launched a strike with Neptun missiles against the missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet. An adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Oleksiy Arrestovich, said the Russian ship was covering the Kherson group with its troops.
In the morning, the Russian defence ministry confirmed the explosion on the cruiser, saying it was "due to a fire" that the ammunition exploded. The ministry said the Moskva "remains afloat" and that the keel was recovered by Black Sea Fleet vessels in the area.
On the evening of 14 April, the Russian Defence Ministry said that the cruiser Moskva had sunk. According to the ministry, this happened when the ship was being towed to its port of destination in stormy conditions, due to hull damage "during a fire caused by the detonation of ammunition". Russian authorities did not say whether anyone was killed in the incident.
According to the Russian president's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin does not plan to hold a meeting on the sinking of the cruiser in the near future, and will not visit Sevastopol or other regions. It is the "prerogative of the military" to establish the causes of what happened to the Moskva,
On Friday, a ceremony was held in Sevastopol to say goodbye to the cruiser Moskva. A mourning wreath bearing the inscription "Ø to the sailors" was brought to the attention of BBC journalists.
A wreath bearing the inscription "To the ship and sailors" during the farewell ceremony of the cruiser Moskva in Sevastopol on 15 April 2022. Photo: social media
16. Anton Kuprin, the commander of the cruiser, appears in the opening shots of the video. Earlier, Ukrainian media announced his death. In addition, the gpsu claimed that the Russian army did not evacuate the building after two Neptun missiles hit it.
The video also shows the navy's commander-in-chief, Nikolai Yevmenov, meeting the crew. He said that "the personnel of the cruiser 'Moscow' are at their main home base, the heroic city of Sevastopol", and that the hired personnel will be released between May and July.
However, as of 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defence decided to abandon the use of conscripts on ships, leaving them only for logistics, as "it would be problematic for a conscript who joined the army for only one year to manage complex electronic systems", reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
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Among them are midshipmen and senior officers, however, a considerable part of them are Ordinaries with empty braces, probably enlisted men.
It is not known how many of them are actually part of the crew. Depending on the year, the crew of the cruiser "Moscow" numbered between 416 and 510 people. The Russian authorities do not explain why there are no other crew members in the ranks.
The crew of the cruiser Moskva in Sevastopol. Screenshot from a video released by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Moreover, the first part of the video of the Moskva formation is published without any sound. Presumably, the unit commanders are reporting on the number of men in and out of formation at that time.
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And as a 'war' is superlative to 'battle', a layman would understandably think a 'warship' is even superlative to 'battleship'. Logical, ey? 
