Under the leadership of the previous commander Sokolov, the Black Sea Fleet lost about 20% of its strength.
The Russians replaced the commander of the Black Sea Fleet and appointed him to this position of Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Sergei Pinchuk.
This is stated in the report of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Russian sources stated that the Russian military has officially fired the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Viktor Sokolov, and replaced him with Pinchuk.
Sokolov probably died as a result of the Ukrainian attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol (Crimea) in September 2023.
A Russian military blogger claimed that Sokolov, who has been the commander of the Black Sea Fleet since September 2022, has banned the fleet from installing non-standard devices on ships to detect maritime drones and other technologically advanced equipment. The blogger also claimed that the Black Sea Fleet lost about 20% of its strength under the command of Sokolov.
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Losses of the Russian Black Sea Fleet
As the speaker of the Ukrainian Navy, captain of the third rank Dmitry Pletenchuk, said, the Black Sea Fleet had almost 80 units of naval combat equipment at the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Of these, 30 to 35 were “heavily armed.” Pletenchuk reported that Ukrainian forces as of February 15, 2023 “destroyed” 26 combat units of the Russian fleet and “seriously damaged” another 15.
The speaker of the Ukrainian Navy also reported that the Russian Coast Guard (subordinate to the Russian FSB) has up to 20 different vessels.
Recall that on September 22, 2023, the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces and the Ukrainian Air Force attacked the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol with Storm Shadow missiles. According to the GUR, at least nine people were killed as a result of the attack. 16 people were also injured, including Russian generals.
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