The Governor of Sevastopol called the name of the deceased on the cruiser "Moscow"

On the cruiser Moskva, which sank in mid-April, senior midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev died, during a fire he drowned out the boiler room and saved hundreds of lives, the governor of Sevastopol said. Another 27 people are missing

Senior midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev died on the Moskva missile cruiser during a fire, he saved several hundred colleagues, Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozzhaev said on his VKontakte page.

“Ivan Leonidovich died heroically. He led his team, brought the sailors out when the fire started, then went down, drowned out the boiler room, but he himself did not have time to get out. He accomplished a feat and saved the lives of hundreds of his colleagues, ”wrote the Sevastopol governor.

Razvozzhaev said that on April 22, the funeral of the deceased senior midshipman took place.

The Ministry of Defense reported one dead on the cruiser "Moskva" and 27 missing Politics

Vakhrushev was born in the village of Nizhny Turunyu in the Koygorodsky district of Komi. After military service, in 2000 he headed the division of divers of the military unit of the patrol ship "Ladny" of the Black Sea Fleet, later he served on patrol ships, frigates and cruisers, and in 2017 he performed "special tasks" in Syria, said the governor of Sevastopol. On the cruiser Moskva, Vakhrushev was the foreman of the boiler room team of the survivability division of the electromechanical warhead.

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The fire on the cruiser "Moskva" occurred on the night of April 14, the Ministry of Defense reported. The department claimed that ammunition detonated on the ship due to a fire, then the fire was localized, and the explosions stopped. The ministry also clarified that the Moskva was seriously damaged, the crew was evacuated, but the ship remained buoyant.

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Then in the evening of the same day, April 14, the Ministry of Defense reported that the cruiser had lost stability and sank while being towed. As reasons, the agency named the damage to the hull received by the ship and the conditions of the stormy sea.

Eight days later, on the evening of April 22, the Ministry of Defense said that one person from the crew of the Moskva cruiser had died, the whereabouts of 27 more were unknown. Along with this, 396 crew members were evacuated, the department said.

Peskov did not confirm the authenticity of the footage of the fire on the cruiser "Moskva" Politics

Prior to reports from the Russian ministry that the cruiser had sunk, experts interviewed by RBC said that its failure as a result of a fire was unlikely to affect the course of the operation in Ukraine. 

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