The admiral seemingly appeared in a video meeting a day after Ukraine said he died in a missile strike.
told reporters that he did not have information"about the alleged death of Black Sea Fleet Commander Sokolov."
Ukraine's Special Operations Forces have begun an investigation into the discrepancy, collecting and attempting to clarify data regarding the casualties from Monday's missile strike,"As you know, 34 officers were killed as a result of a missile attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation," the agency said."Available sources claim that the commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation is among the dead.
After releasing the photo of the meeting that Sokolov had purportedly attended, Russian officials later shared a video. A report fromnoted certain suspicious aspects of the video, including the fact that Sokolov appeared"completely motionless on the screen." After a five-second splice in the video, he appeared to be wearing glasses and remained seemingly motionless.
Photo of a vessel from Russia's Black Sea fleet. Ukrainian officials confirmed that they are investigating after a Russian admiral who was presumed dead appeared in a video meeting.
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