Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Captain Killed
MOSCOW – A high-ranking Russian military official has been killed in the war against Ukraine, according to a Russian official’s social media post.
Russian Senator from Sevastopol Yekaterina Altabayeva on her Telegram said Andrey Paliy, 51-year-old deputy commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, died in the clashes at Ukraine’s Mariupol city.
Paliy had graduated from the Kyiv Military Naval School of Politics in 1992, and had refused to join the Ukrainian army in 1993, instead entering the Russian Northern Navy.
She added that the senior military official Paliy had also taken part in the 2008 Georgia war.