According to Mikhail Razvojayev, Andrei Palii, a “real officer from a military dynasty“who enjoyed a”great authority over the fleet“Russian, perished on Saturday in clashes around Mariupola strategic port city in southeastern Ukraine besieged by the Russian army for several weeks.
According to Russian media, Andrei Palii was in 2020 deputy commander of the Russian forces in Syria where Russia has been intervening militarily since September 2015 in support of the forces of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
