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‘They said the crew was evacuated. It’s a cruel, cynical lie!’ Relatives despair for the Moskva’s missing

or days after the Moskva cruiser sank in the Black Sea, Yulia Tsyvova had been desperately searching for information about her son Andrei. Like hundreds of other Russian families of the crew members, she had not been told whether he had survived the reported Ukrainian missile attack that had sunk the Russian flagship of the Black Sea fleet. Then on Monday morning, she received

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