‘Dead’ Russian Admiral Shoved in Front of the Cameras to Prove He Survived Missile Blast

The commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet reported to have been killed in the destruction of its HQ in occupied Sevastopol last week appears to have survived, if a video released by the Russian defense ministry can be taken at face value.

Ukrainian officials publicly “confirmed” Monday that Admiral Viktor Sokolov was among 34 senior officers killed in a missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters last Friday that came as a hugely damaging blow to the Russian war effort.

Russia made no public comment on the specific Ukrainian claims, presumably because there’s no good way to spin the destruction of what should have been the best-protected building on the Crimean peninsula.

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