<!-- wp:html --><p>Black Sea Fleet/Handout via Reuters</p>
<p>Russia’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/viktor-sokolov-navy-commander-and-33-officers-obliterated-in-russias-biggest-blow-yet">back-from-the-dead</a> commander of the Black Sea Fleet has appeared in a new video released by state-controlled media declaring that “life goes on” after he was rumored to have died in a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-black-sea-fleet-hq-up-in-flames-after-ukraine-missile-strike">Ukrainian missile strike</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dead-russian-admiral-shoved-in-front-of-the-cameras-to-prove-he-survived-missile-blast">Admiral Viktor Sokolov</a> appeared to comment directly on reports of his death in comments to a reporter published by <a href="https://t.me/izvestia/143929">Izvestia</a>. Asked to say a few words to residents of Sevastopol regarding “what happened,” Sokolov replied: “And what happened? Nothing happened.”</p>
<p>He went on to boast of how the Black Sea Fleet is “successfully” fulfilling all of its tasks.</p>
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Russia’s back-from-the-dead commander of the Black Sea Fleet has appeared in a new video released by state-controlled media declaring that “life goes on” after he was rumored to have died in a Ukrainian missile strike.
Admiral Viktor Sokolov appeared to comment directly on reports of his death in comments to a reporter published by Izvestia. Asked to say a few words to residents of Sevastopol regarding “what happened,” Sokolov replied: “And what happened? Nothing happened.”
He went on to boast of how the Black Sea Fleet is “successfully” fulfilling all of its tasks.
