“My brother called home on Friday, the 24th. The attack happened the very next day, and nobody told us anything on the 25th,” said Seemakshi, sister of Ram Chandra Dubey, one of two missing sailors still unaccounted for after the merchant vessel MV AGN Ragnar came under attack off Ukraine’s coast.
Dubey, an Ordinary Seaman, and fellow crew member Deepak Kumar Gupta have been missing since Saturday, July 25, after the Palau-flagged cargo ship was struck by suspected Russian drones while outbound through the Bystre Channel, near the Danube’s mouth into the Black Sea, on a voyage from Ukraine toward Istanbul. Two other Indian crew members were confirmed safe soon after.
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Family Of Missing Sailor Says They Were Left In The Dark
According to Seemakshi, the family’s only contact in the first 24 hours after the attack came not from the government or the company that employed her brother, but from a stranger. “We got a call from a private person on the 26th, around 1.30 pm. He told us his name is Prashant, and that my brother is missing. He later called back to complain that too many people were calling him, and asked why we had shared his number. You tell me — if a family member is missing, would we not call the only person who reached out to us? We don’t know the background of this person. But we didn’t get a single call from the com
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