A ceremony honoring the Deputy Commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Andrey Pally, who was killed in action in Ukraine near Mariupol, was held in the annexed Crimea. This was reported by the Russian agency Tass according to which several hundred people, including soldiers, veterans, relatives and local officials, marched in front of the deceased’s bucrainaara in the port of Sevastopol. Military personnel have formed an honor guard in front of the building.
The deceased is expected to be buried in Sevastopol, which serves as the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Andrey Pally’s death was announced on Sunday 20 March. For Moscow it is the death in combat of one of his most important officers. According to the governor of Sevastopol, the officer may have died on Saturday 19 in the clashes around Mariupol, a strategic port city in southeastern Ukraine that has been under siege by the Russian army for several weeks.
Andrey Pally was a “true officer of a military dynasty” and had “great authority over the Russian fleet,” said the governor, Mikhail Razvojaev. According to Russian media, Pally was deputy commander of the Russian forces in Syria in 2020, where Russia has intervened militarily since September 2015 in support of the forces of the Bashar al-Assad regime, as well as having previously participated in the Russian military operation. in Georgia in 2008.
Before him, they fell under the blows of the Ukrainians Vitaly Gerasimov, Andrei Kolesnikov, Oleg Mityaev and Andrei Sukhovetskyall experienced generals, veterans of the wars fought by the Federation over the past thirty years.