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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Russia calls up missing cook who was onboard warship sunk in April

The Moskva missile cruiser flagship, of the Russian Black Sea Fleet
The Moskva missile cruiser, flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, pictured in 2013 entering Sevastopol Bay. Photograph: Vasiliy Batanov/AFP/Getty Images

A recruitment office in St Petersburg has issued a draft notice to a missing Russian sailor who was onboard the flagship Moskva missile cruiser, which sank in the Black Sea in April.

According to a report by the local news website Fontanka, the parents of the sailor, named Mikhail, who was a cook on the Moskva cruiser, received his call-up notice last month. The papers ordered their son to report to the drafting station or face possible prosecution.

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