A court in Crimea’s Sevastopol has declared 17 sailors from Russia’s sunken Moskva cruiser dead, Agentstvo cites the court. Information on all 17 cases is available at the court’s catalogue.
Those are cases of “declaring citizens missing or declaring citizens deceased.” For instance, the court’s catalogue has a case where Dmitry Skhrebets, the father of Yegor Shkrebets, the conscript who lost his life at the Moskva cruiser, is listed as the complainant, as well as cases with other relatives of the deceased conscripts in the same role, namely Vitaly Begersky, Ivan Frantin and Leonid Savin. There are links to all entries of the court's catalogue in the Russian-language version of this piece.
The complainants in these cases are the commander of military unit 42948, the one Moskva was assigned to, as well as the parents of the deceased servicemen.
According to Agentstvo, 16 cases were considered between June and August, and one more in September. In 12 cases, the decision has already taken legal effect.
Dmitry Shkrebets has confirmed to Agentstvo that his son was declared dead. “Closed trials were held on the application of parents regarding the recognition of the missing sons as dead. All other missing sailors whose parents did not apply to the court are automatically declared dead after 6 months, ”he said.