Parents of cook missing after Moskva warship sank get call-up for him

Bureaucracy blamed for draft papers summoning Russian sailor who was aboard lost missile cruiser

A recruitment office in St Petersburg has issued a draft notice to a missing Russian sailor who was aboard 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.