Posted on 09/26/2023 6:29:12 AM PDT by jacknhoo
MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and one of Russia's most senior navy officers, was shown on Tuesday attending a video conference, a day after Ukrainian special forces said they had killed him.
In video and photographs released by the Russian defence ministry, Sokolov was shown apparently taking part in a video conference with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and other top admirals and army chiefs.
Ukraine's special forces said on Monday they had killed Sokolov, Moscow's top admiral in Crimea, along with 33 other officers in a missile attack last week on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in the port of Sevastopol.
Earlier on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had declined to comment on the Ukrainian claim, referring reporters to the defence ministry.
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Report this ad In the video released by the ministry, Shoigu said that more than 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in September and that more than 2,700 weapons, including seven American Bradley fighting vehicles, had been destroyed.
"The Ukrainian armed forces are suffering serious losses along the entire front line," Shoigu said, adding that the Ukrainian counter-offensive had so far produced no results.
Report this ad "The United States and its allies continue to arm the armed forces of Ukraine, and the Kyiv regime throws untrained soldiers to their slaughter in senseless assaults," Shoigu said.
Ukraine's counter-offensive has yet to yield significant territorial gains against Russian forces, which control about 17.5% of the internationally recognised territory of Ukraine.
According to a Sept. 19 scorecard by the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School, Russia has gained 35 square miles of territory from Ukraine in the past month while Ukrainian forces have taken 16 square miles from Russian forces.
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You mean the Ukes lied? 😮
Was the video conference done over a crystal ball with a psychic medium?
Russia is too humiliated to just admit the admiral survived his HQ being blown up. Hilarious.
So, what, you do not believe your Reuters propaganda source for this story? You Fed contractors need to get your story straight, jack.
That's what he looks like the whole time:
It doesn't even look like a chair. It looks like he is lying on a bed filmed from above.
I wouldn't give him a clean bill of health based on that evidence. If Russians would want to counter the rumors that he is at least grievously wounded then they could have done so easily. He could have stood on his own feet, said something and waved. Instead the Russians spread him looking near death like this picture.
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