RIA Novosti: Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Andrei Paly died in the battles for Mariupol

RIA Novosti: Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Andrei Paly died in the battles for Mariupol

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Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 1st Rank Andrey Paliy died in the battles for Mariupol, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Ekaterina Altabayeva, Senator from Sevastopol.

“Sevastopol suffered a heavy, irreparable loss,” Altabayeva said. “Deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet died in the battles for the liberation of Mariupol from the Nazis.” The Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozzhaev confirmed the information about his death. “Andrey Nikolayevich chose to defend his homeland as his life’s work and died for our peaceful future,” he said in his Telegram channel.

Andrei Paly was 51 years old, he came from a family of hereditary military men. In 1993, Paliy refused to take the military oath of Ukraine. Then he served on the destroyer Fearless of the Northern Fleet, on the rescue ship Georgy Titov, and sailed on the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Peter the Great. At the end of 2020 – Deputy Commander of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria.

Source: Rosbalt

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