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War in Ukraine: an audio recording of the sinking of the Moskva cruiser revealed

2022-05-17T14:02:34.919Z


The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet sank in April. The recording revealed by the Ukrainians but not authenticated would support kyiv's thesis that the ship was hit by two missiles.


"

Tugboat, do you read me?"

shouts a Russian voice, barely drowning out the tumult of the sirens and crackling that pollute the communication, “

emergency situation on the

Moskva

 !

".

In a recording released by Ukrainian military authorities and relayed by

The Kyiv Independent

, the last moments of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, sunk on April 14, may have been captured.

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After the sinking of the

Moskva

, the distress of families without news

The cruiser sank more than a month after the start of the war in Ukraine and the causes of the event were divided until today.

Kiev claimed to have fired two R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles while Moscow persisted in saying that an “

accidental fire

” had plunged the cruiser to the bottom of the Black Sea.

These audio recordings support the Ukrainian thesis, but the video, to date, has not been formally authenticated, as American journalist Chris Cavas, a specialist in naval issues, recalls.

“The boat is going to overturn”

Two hits.

The boat will roll over on its side, tilt 30 degrees, the propeller is destroyed

”, can be heard in the audio shared by the Ukrainian media, “

the impact is below the waterline, impossible to approach the tug boat!

panics the man.

The recording stops after the last words: “

crew rescue requested!

".

If this communication proves to be authentic, the Russian version is seriously undermined, a fire not being able to be at the origin of "

impacts

".

Officially, Russia recognizes that the sinking left one dead and 26 missing, while the ship could have up to 680 crew members, and has since published a video of part of the crew, ashore, without that it can be authenticated.

On April 15, Natalia Goumeniuk, spokesperson for the military command of the southern region of Ukraine commented on the events of the previous day: "

We observed the boats which tried to come to his aid, but even the forces of nature been on the side of Ukraine

", because "

a storm prevented the rescue of the boat and the evacuation of the crew.

On this point, uncertainty therefore remains.

The

Moskva

is, according to

The Independent Kyiv

, the largest Russian warship sunk since World War II and the first Russian flagship sunk since the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.

Source: lefigaro

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