INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet has appeared in a video published by the Defense Ministry on Tuesday following claims by Kyiv that
he was killed in a recent missile strike.Ukraine said earlier this week it had killed Admiral Viktor Sokolov and 34 officers in an
Defense Ministry on Tuesday showed Sokolov wearing military attire and attending a top brass meeting alongside the commanders of other
Russian Navy branches via videoconference.In response to the video's release, the Ukrainian military said it was "clarifying information"
about the admiral's alleged death in Friday's strike.The Russian military did not draw specific attention to Sokolov in the video, whose
who chaired the meeting, reported on the deaths of more than 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers and the destruction of more than 2,700 weapons since
reporting to this article.
