The mother of Yegor Shkrebets informed about 200 wounded in hospital. Her son was a conscript from the crashed cruiser Moskva, who, according to the Russian command, disappeared "somewhere in the sea".
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The parents of the Russian conscript arrived at the hospital in Skelyasta Bukhta, where, according to the woman, the wounded sailors were located.
"We saw every burnt child. I can't tell you how hard it was, but I didn't find my child. There were only two hundred people there, and there were more than 500 on the cruiser. Where are the others? We cannot find them ," Irina Shkrebets said.
"They were on combat duty, preparing to eat. From the oath, which was held on August 14, he was on the vessel," the woman said.
For the first time since the start of a full-scale war, he called his parents and told them that they had "captured" Zmiyinyy Island. The last time he contacted his parents via Viber on April 9: he wrote from the number which was not known to them.
The parents began looking for Yegor after it became known about the sinking of the Moskva.
According to Irina, they were not allowed anywhere: "We went to the residence of the military unit, the commander came out, threw his arms up and said: I will not tell you anything. Where is my son? I asked. And he answered: Well, somewhere in the sea. My husband became outraged: What does it mean, somewhere in the sea? And where have you been? I was not there at all, the commander answered. Those commanders even were not present on the vessel."
Then they came to the office of Federal Security Service in Sevastopol, but nobody was willing to come out and talk with parents. Also, the Russian parents were not allowed to see the list of dead or missing.
The Russian edition of Novaya Gazeta Europe published the testimony of the mother of another survivor from the Moskva.
"My son said that the cruiser was shot down from the land by the Ukrainian party. The fire wouldn't have started without any reason. There were dead and wounded people, there were missing people", the mother of the Russian sailor said.
She said that her son called her on April 15 and cried: “Mommy, I have never thought that I would get into such a mess in a relatively peaceful time. I will not even tell you in detail what I saw. It's so terrible. "
"I don't know how to survive it, how to wait for my son from the army, please understand me correctly. I'm just a mother… I'm just… It's terrible. The media, of course, do not say all the details. Why? The reason is that the Ministry of Defense does not want to confirm the defeat from Ukraine. They do not want to admit that the cruiser like this was defeated. "
Please be reminded that the Russian missile cruiser Moskva was damaged on April 13 by attack of the anti-ship missiles Neptune from defenders of Ukraine. On April 14, the cruiser Moskva sank.
At the beginning of the war, this cruiser together with the patrol ship Vasily Bykov of the Russian Black Sea Fleet demanded that the defenders of Zmiyinyy Island surrender. They answered with the legendary phrase "Russian warship, go f…ck yourself!"
The Moskva was the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. It was built in the city of Mykolayiv during the Soviet period. The construction began in 1976. Initially, the cruiser was called Slava.