The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that no one died on the sunken cruiser "Moscow". Now it admitted that one sailor died and 27 more were missing

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April 13th

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In the evening, representatives of the Ukrainian authorities announced an attack on the Moscow cruiser - the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation - the Neptune anti -ship missiles. As a result, the ship received “very serious damage”, a fire began.

A few hours later, the Russian news agencies published a message from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: “As a result of a fire on the Moscow missile cruiser, the ammunition detonated. The ship received serious damage. The crew is completely evacuated. "

At the same time, information about the number of crews, dead and wounded was not specified. On the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation or in the telegram channel of the department, this message was not published.

April 14th

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On the afternoon of April 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense (again through news agencies ) said that the fire of the fire on the cruiser was localized, the explosions of ammunition stopped. The agency also clarified that after the fire, Moscow retains buoyancy, and they are going to tow it into the port.

“The crew of the cruiser was evacuated to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet located in the area. The reasons for the fire are established, ”the report said.

However, already in the evening of the same day, the ministrysaid that during the towing, the ship had lost its stability and “in conditions of stormy excitement of the sea” sank. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation once again repeated that the sailors were evacuated to other ships.

April 15

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TASS, citing the source, reported that the crew of Moscow was delivered to Sevastopol. On the same day, a farewell ceremony with a cruiser was held in the city. Journalists noticed a mourning wreath with a “ship and sailors” in the video and photographs from the event. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation did not report the ceremony.

April 16

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The department for the first time since the death of Moscow publishes information related to the cruiser on its website. This is a press release about the meeting of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov and the command of the Black Sea Fleet with the crew of Moscow in Sevastopol. From the statement made by Evmenov after the meeting, for the first time, it becomes publicly known that rafts were served on the ship.

The video from the meeting was published by the Star channel and the telegram of the department. In that part of the videos, where, as journalists suggest, there were no sound. Data on the dead and victims as a result of the sinking of the cruiser are still not called.

April 17-18

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Journalists of the “SCHEM” (the Ukrainian project “Radio Liberty” ) report that at least one sailor from Moscow - midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev died. They found a post about this in the social networks of the military wife. After that, according to relatives, it becomes known about several dead or missing sailors who served on the cruiser. Among them are little soldiers .

Close to the command of the Black Sea Fleet, the source told Medusa that there were 37 people who were dead on the Moscow cruiser, about a hundred sailors were injured, and there are also missing - their exact number is unknown. In total, about 500 people were on the ship, which was close to the command of the Black Sea Fleet.

April 22

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The Ministry of Defense ( again through the news agencies ) admitted that as a result of the fire that arose on April 13 on the Moscow missile cruiser, one person died, and another 27 were missing.

The name of the deceased - Michman Vakhrushev - called the governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev. “Ivan Leonidovich died heroically. He led his team, led the sailors when the fire began, then went down, drowned the boiler room, but he no longer had time to get out. He accomplished a feat and saved the lives of his hundreds of colleagues, ”said the head of the region.