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Warship "Moskva": Relic could be lost forever after sinking

2022-04-28T03:18:45.078Z


Warship "Moskva": Relic could be lost forever after sinking Created: 04/28/2022 05:03 By: Tobias Utz, Tanja Banner, Jan-Frederik Wendt, Alina Schröder A piece of the cross of Jesus Christ is said to have been on board the Russian warship Moskva, which sank in the Ukraine war. Warship "Moskva" : The US reports details of the sunken missile ship . According to Ukrainian data, "Neptune" rockets h


Warship "Moskva": Relic could be lost forever after sinking

Created: 04/28/2022 05:03

By: Tobias Utz, Tanja Banner, Jan-Frederik Wendt, Alina Schröder

A piece of the cross of Jesus Christ is said to have been on board the Russian warship Moskva, which sank in the Ukraine war.

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    "Moskva"

    : The US reports details of the sunken

    missile ship

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    According to Ukrainian data, "Neptune" rockets have sunk the ship, Russia insists on an accident.

  • Russia admits dead

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    The official confirmation of the sunken warship "Moskva" is a rarity in the Ukraine war.

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Update from Sunday, April 24, 12:59 p.m .:

In the Ukraine war, the sinking of the Russian warship “Moskva” caused a sensation.

For a long time, the Kremlin did not announce possible numbers of deaths and missing persons.

Then the Navy said one sailor had died while 27 others were reported missing.

Now it has become known that a symbolic Christian relic could lie on the bottom of the Black Sea with the ship.

According to reports from the Russian news agency TASS in 2020, on board was a piece from the cross on which believers believe Jesus was crucified.

Sergiy Khalyuta, archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Sevastopol district, told the agency at the time that anonymous donors arranged for the important relic to be donated to the fleet.

Whether the crew of the "Moskva" managed to recover the important relic during the evacuation.

The Russian flagship Moskva is said to have been sunk by missiles from Ukraine.

(Archive image) © Zhang Jiye/dpa

Ukraine War: Warship "Moskva" sunk - Russia admits dead for the first time

Update from Saturday, April 23, 5:55 a.m .:

The announcement by the Russian Navy that a sailor died in the sinking of the warship "Moskva" was the first time that Russia had acknowledged the death of crew members in this context.

The Kremlin also announced that another 27 sailors were missing.

+++ 9:50 p.m .:

After the sinking of the Russian warship “Moskva”, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow reported the death of a crew member.

27 other sailors were missing, the ministry said on Friday, according to Russian news agencies.

The remaining 396 crew members of the guided missile cruiser that sank in the Black Sea on April 14 were rescued.

Ukraine war: warship "Moskva" sinks - medium close to the Kremlin announces high death toll

+++ 10:00 a.m .:

There are apparently new figures for Russian losses in the Ukraine war.

The news portal Readovka, which is close to the Kremlin, caused a stir in the social network VK.

According to data from the Russian Defense Ministry, 13,414 soldiers have died so far.

7000 armed forces are currently missing.

In addition, death figures for the crew of the sunken warship "Moskva" were given: 116 people died there, 100 were missing. 

The news portal deleted the information a short time later.

 The information previously referred to a “meeting that just ended” of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Kremlin had previously spoken of a maximum of more than 2,000 dead soldiers in the Russian army.

Update from Friday, April 22, 8 a.m.:

More and more reports from desperate parents are coming to light.

After the sinking of the warship "Moskva", there is apparently still uncertainty about the whereabouts of numerous crew members.

The news magazine Spiegel spoke to the mother of a 20-year-old conscript who has been reported missing.

Her attempts to get answers from the Russian army about the whereabouts of her child have so far failed.

"Moskva" sinks in the Ukraine war: the mother of a soldier tells dramatic stories

Update from Wednesday, April 20, 11:30 a.m .:

Relatives of the Russian soldiers who were stationed on the sunken "Moskva" spoke to the British newspaper Guardian.

For example, a mother told of a dramatic phone call (see update from 3.45 p.m.).

The father of another soldier has also sharply criticized the Russian account of what happened to the newspaper.

The Kremlin also said that the crew of the Moskva had been evacuated.

"A cruel and cynical lie," Dmitry Shkrebets wrote to the Guardian.

Shkrebet's son was reportedly a cook on the warship.

"Now a recruit who was not intended for active combat is missing," he lamented the disappearance of his son.

"How can you get lost in the middle of the sea?!!!" the newspaper continued to quote him as saying.

Ukraine war: Russian warship "Moskva" sunk - relatives report

+++ 3.45 p.m .:

What actually happened to the Russian warship “Moskva” is still unclear.

The statements made by the Ukrainian and Russian sides are massively contradictory.

The fact that a Ukrainian rocket attack is responsible for the sinking of the ship is becoming increasingly likely on the basis of numerous recordings and illustrations - the Russian claim that a storm caused it, however, is becoming increasingly unlikely.

Numerous meteorological experts have already confirmed that there was no storm at the time of the sinking.

Update from Tuesday, April 19, 9:15 a.m .:

It is still unclear what happened to the crew of the sunken warship "Moskva".

Despite initial Kremlin claims that the missile cruiser had been fully evacuated, evidence is mounting that scores of sailors have been killed or injured.

The independent Russian media company Meduza gave concrete figures for the first time on Monday (April 18, 2022), citing a source in the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Accordingly, 37 sailors are said to have died when the "Moskva" sank and 100 others were injured.

Warship "Moskva": US reports details of sunken missile ship

+++ 9:00 p.m .:

According to the US government, the missile cruiser “Moskva” from Russia had no nuclear weapons on board.

This was confirmed by a senior official of the US Department of Defense on Monday (April 18, 2022), according to which there was “no evidence” of such weapons on board the ship at the time of the sinking.

In addition, the US official reported that there was a high probability of fatalities among the sailors on the "Moskva".

However, evidence also indicated that some crew members from Russia had survived.

Warship "Moskva": Apparently the first pictures of the destroyed cruiser published

+++ 3.30 p.m .:

After the sinking of the Russian warship “Moskva”, the first images also appeared on social networks.

According to the Interfax news agency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Monday that he had seen the images of a burning ship.

“Yes, we actually saw those pictures;

but to what extent they are authentic and correspond to reality, we cannot say,” said Peskow.

Warship "Moskva": Apparently the first pictures of the destroyed cruiser published

Update from Monday, April 18, 11:15 a.m .:

She was the pride of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

But about seven weeks after the start of the war against Ukraine, the Russian warship "Moskva" sank in the Black Sea on April 14, 2022.

The missile cruiser had previously been badly damaged.

The first images have now appeared on social networks, which experts say are very likely to be verifiable.

Several fake images of the damaged warship had previously appeared on the internet.

War in Ukraine: Warship "Moskva": Ukraine accuses Russia of attempting retaliation

+++ 19.40:

According to the Ukrainian government, the Russian attack on a military factory near Kiev was a retaliatory attack for the destruction of the Russian warship "Moskva".

This was reported by the AFP news agency on Easter Sunday (04/17/2022).

At the end of March, Moscow actually announced that it wanted to focus its offensive on eastern Ukraine.

On Friday, however, the Kremlin threatened renewed attacks on the Ukrainian capital.

Warship "Moskva" sunk: Moscow publishes video

Update from Sunday, April 17, 10:50 a.m.:

What happened to the 500-man crew of the "Moskva"?

This question still cannot be answered.

Ukraine suspects there have been fatalities, while Russia claims the crew has been evacuated.

Yesterday the Defense Ministry in Moscow released a video purporting to show members of the crew.

There is still disagreement as to whether the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was hit by Ukrainian rockets of the Neptune type or - as the Russian side claims - damaged by the detonation of ammunition. 

Warship "Moskva" sunk: Video from Russia is said to show rescued crew

+++ 8.15 p.m .:

After the sinking of the Russian warship “Moskva”, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video intended to show members of the ship’s crew.

Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Yevmenov met with the sailors in Sevastopol, the agency said.

The city on the Crimean Peninsula is the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Russia's warship "Moskva": Crew not evacuated in time, according to Ukraine

+++ 3.20 p.m .:

According to a Ukrainian military spokeswoman, the crew of the “Moskva” – around 500 people – could not be saved before the ship sank.

The Russian account is different: Already in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, Russia had announced that the crew of the "Moskva" had been completely evacuated.

+++ 1:05 p.m .:

According to Kiev, the captain of the sunken Russian missile cruiser “Moskva” is dead. This was announced by Anton Geraschenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, according to n-tv.de.

"Anton Kuprin, captain 1st rank, commander of the cruiser 'Moskva' died in an explosion and fire on board the former flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet," Gerashenko wrote in his Telegram channel, according to n-tv.

Update from Saturday, April 16, 6:45 a.m .:

In Ukraine, a stamp with the motif of a Ukrainian soldier giving a Russian warship the finger has become a collector's item.

Hundreds of Ukrainians queued for hours at the main post office in Kyiv on Friday to get copies of this stamp.

The postage stamp had gained new meaning after the sinking of the "Moskva", the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Warship "Moskva" sunk: what consequences the loss has for the Russian Navy

+++ 5:00 p.m .:

The background to the sinking of the “Moskva” has not yet been clarified.

Ukraine also claims to have sunk the warship with a missile attack.

The Turkish Bayraktar-TB2 drones could also have been used, for example to distract the air defenses.

First report from Friday, April 15, 7:00 a.m.:

Kiev/Odessa – On Thursday (April 14, 2022), the Russian army lost what was probably its most important warship in the Ukraine war.

This is the missile cruiser Moskva, part of the Black Sea Fleet.

The Ministry of Defense in Moscow said that the military ship had lost its "balance" and went under in heavy seas.

Ammunition had exploded on board, the Kremlin said.

Instead, the Ukrainian armed forces claimed the sinking of the "Moskva" for themselves.

So far it is unclear who or what is actually responsible for the sinking of the warship.

The spokesman for the Ukrainian army in the port city of Odessa, Sergey Brachuk, had announced that the "Moskva" had been hit by Ukrainian "Neptune"-type missiles.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, alluded to the sunken Russian warship in a video speech and praised all those "who have shown that Russian ships can get to the bottom." 

"Heavy blow" for Russia in the Ukraine war: warship "Moskva" sinks

The US government described this as a "major blow" to the Russian Navy.

The missile-equipped cruiser played a "key role" in the Russian army's efforts to establish "naval dominance in the Black Sea," US Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told CNN.

The "Moskva", built in Soviet times, together with other ships of the Black Sea Fleet, had blocked the southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol: There has been great suffering there for weeks, "hunger and need" dominate.

(tu/jfw/tab/as with dpa/AFP)

Source: merkur

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