Russian officials claim the Moskva warship sank after a fire ignited the ammunition supplies, but Ukrainian forces claim they sank it with two Neptune missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials told the mother of a missing Russian conscript serving on the sunk warship Moskva that her son and other lost sailors were “burned to ashes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olga Dubinina, a brave woman, has accused the authorities of lying to bereaved relatives and subjecting them to “blackmail” by agreeing to compensation only if they sign a paper confirming the vessel was not hit by Ukrainian missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vladimir Putin’s flagship went down on April 14, but Russian authorities have yet to admit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The actual number of victims is thought to be in the dozens, but could be in the hundreds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The enraged mother lost her son, Nikita Syromyasov, on the warship, but she is still waiting for an official account of what happened and naval confirmation that he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I don’t believe a single word of what they say,” she told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Regardless of rank, it’s all a complete lie.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anguished parents and widows are being denied necessary documentation for compensation after admitting their children died on the ill-fated Moskva, she claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This means that the Russian version, rather than Ukraine’s and the West’s, that there was an explosion and fire on the ship, led to the sinking, is correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s a kind of…blackmail,” she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked if she signed, she replied, “Of course not.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what kind of statement is it? Are you dead as a result of a disaster?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I am dissatisfied with this wording, and I do not agree [this is how] my son died.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If they think otherwise, I tell them, ‘Prove it to me.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The new version is that they all [lost conscripts] burned to ashes,” they’re saying now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“They only talk to us, they don’t give us anything in writing,” said the desperate mother from Sevastopol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a team sent to help people like me, whose sons and husband have gone missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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