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26-05-2022, 12:34 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...oskva.html
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The images show what appears to be damage to the left-hand side of the vessel close to the water line, smoke and fire damage along its left-hand side, missing lifeboats and open helicopter bay doors - suggesting the aircraft has taken off. A rescue ship also appears to be behind the stricken ship, spraying water jets
The latest claims confirmed an earlier Russian assertion that the holed vessel sank while under tow towards naval port Sevastopol.
The ship became infamous for a clip of a Ukrainian soldier telling the Russian warship 'go f*** yourself' at the outbreak of the war.
It is the largest Russian warship to be sunk since World War II and the first of a similar size since ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982.
The reported gruesome operation to retrieve the dead amid after rising fury from relatives of the crew over an alleged cover-up by the Russian authorities over the fate of many sailors, a large proportion of whom were conscripts.
A father leading the campaign, Dmitry Shkrebets, 43, said: 'There were no rescue efforts. Officers fled the ship like rats, the sailors were abandoned.' He vowed: 'Putin will answer personally. He is used to lying.'
He told Putin: 'You'll answer!'
He lost his son Yegor, 20, in the sinking.
'Want to know why there were no badly wounded survivors from the Moskva? Because they sank them together with the cruiser.
'They couldn't tug the ship to Sevastopol, because everyone would realise what happened, so overnight from 13 to 14 April they pulled it further south, and sank it.
'This is the naked truth. The scary, awful truth, and I'll prove it.
'The time will pass, and I'll prove it. Look at the awful beasts we have as our authorities.'
The images show what appears to be damage to the left-hand side of the vessel close to the water line, smoke and fire damage along its left-hand side, missing lifeboats and open helicopter bay doors - suggesting the aircraft has taken off. A rescue ship also appears to be behind the stricken ship, spraying water jetsThe latest claims confirmed an earlier Russian assertion that the holed vessel sank while under tow towards naval port Sevastopol.
The ship became infamous for a clip of a Ukrainian soldier telling the Russian warship 'go f*** yourself' at the outbreak of the war.
It is the largest Russian warship to be sunk since World War II and the first of a similar size since ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982.
The reported gruesome operation to retrieve the dead amid after rising fury from relatives of the crew over an alleged cover-up by the Russian authorities over the fate of many sailors, a large proportion of whom were conscripts.
A father leading the campaign, Dmitry Shkrebets, 43, said: 'There were no rescue efforts. Officers fled the ship like rats, the sailors were abandoned.' He vowed: 'Putin will answer personally. He is used to lying.'
He told Putin: 'You'll answer!'
He lost his son Yegor, 20, in the sinking.
'Want to know why there were no badly wounded survivors from the Moskva? Because they sank them together with the cruiser.
'They couldn't tug the ship to Sevastopol, because everyone would realise what happened, so overnight from 13 to 14 April they pulled it further south, and sank it.
'This is the naked truth. The scary, awful truth, and I'll prove it.
'The time will pass, and I'll prove it. Look at the awful beasts we have as our authorities.'
