Another Russian Commander Andrei Paly confirmed dead in war with Ukraine

Another Russian Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 1st Rank Andrei Paly, has been confirmed dead in war with Ukraine.

He was killed in combat in Mariupol, Russian officials said on Sunday,

Ukraine had claimed it killed Paly earlier, but the Russian officials have now confirm the authenticity of the claim.

Earlier we reported that Ukraine claimed to have killed him. Heavy fighting continues in Mariupol, a port city battered by Russian shelling.

Paly’s death was initially confirmed by the secretary of the Nakhimov naval college, Konstantin Tsarenko, on social network Vkontakte (VK).

Later, a Russian senator from Sevastopol – the Black Sea Fleet’s base in Russian-annexed Crimea – said in a VK post that “Sevastopol has suffered a heavy, irreparable loss… Paly died in the battles for the liberation of Mariupol from the Nazis”.

BBC had quoted Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhayev as saying in a Telegram post that “Andrei Nikolaevich chose to defend the Motherland as his life’s work and died for our peaceful future”.

Five Russian generals have so far being killed in the war with Ukraine.