1/ A Russian court has declared 17 missing sailors from the sunken cruiser Moskva to be dead, according to the Agency News Telegram channel. Translation follows. ⬇️
2/ A court in Sevastopol has declared 17 people from the military unit where seamen from the Moskva cruiser were serving deceased. Information about this was published in the court's files.
3/ Details. The cases for which the decisions have been published are about declaring citizens "missing or declared dead". The applicants in these cases are the commander of the military unit 42948 – part of the cruiser Moskva, as well as parents of the deceased servicemen.
4/ Sixteen cases were heard in June and August, one more in September. A ruling in 12 cases has already come into legal force.
5/ ▪️ The plaintiffs include the namesakes of the dead sailors reported in the media, including Yegor Shkrebts, Vitaly Begersky, Danila Gerka, Ivan Frantin and Leonid Savin.
6/ ▪️ Dmitry Shkrebets, Yegor Shkrebets' father, confirmed to Agency News that his son had been declared dead. "Closed courts have been held for parents' applications to declare their missing sons dead."
7/ "All other missing sailors whose parents did not write such a statement are automatically declared dead after six months," he wrote. The father of the dead sailor said that the interests of the families were represented by the military prosecutor's office and the unit command.
8/ Context. The cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, sank on 14 April. According to the Ministry of Defence, there was a fire on the cruiser, which led to the detonation of the ammunition.
9/ Kiev reported that the cruiser had been attacked by two Neptun anti-ship missiles. The same was said by the Pentagon.
▪️ The Russian Defence Ministry has said that one sailor died on the Moskva cruiser and 27 others are missing. /end
▪️ The Russian Defence Ministry has said that one sailor died on the Moskva cruiser and 27 others are missing. /end
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