Viktor Sokolov has been dismissed and succeeded by an unnamed chief of staff, according to reports

The commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been sacked after Ukrainian forces claimed to have sunk a Russian landing ship off the coast of occupied Crimea, according to local media reports.

Ukraine’s main directorate of intelligence (GUR) published a video on Wednesday of what it said was the Russian Black Sea fleet’s Caesar Kunikov burning and sinking a few miles off Alupka on the southern tip of Crimea.

  • @[email protected]
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    410 months ago

    Good thing Naval warships don’t have windows you can fall out of. Railings on the other hand…

    • FuglyDuck
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      1310 months ago

      Pretty sure “sacked” is a euphemism for “stuffed in a sack with rocks and thrown overboard “

      • @aeronmelon
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        310 months ago

        Sacked right out of a second-story window.

      • @avater
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        310 months ago

        That’s a promotion in modern soviet russia. He’s now a very special underwater commander.