“Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov and the command of the Black Sea Fleet held a meeting with the crew of the Moskva missile cruiser in Sevastopol,” the agency said in a Telegram message.

Evmenov said that the officers, midshipmen and sailors of the cruiser would continue to serve in the Navy.

On April 14, the cruiser Moskva sank while being towed in a storm.