Admiral Osipov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet, was expected to inspect the traditional troop parade in Red Square, but was conspicuously absent. That is already considered strange by The Mirror, but Osipov’s name was also on the list of senior officers at the Fleet Day on May 7, but was quickly removed again. And that concerned the Black Sea Fleet Day, his own fleet…
‘At his post’
Officially it is said that the admiral is ‘at his post’, but after earlier speculations about his arrest immediately after the debacle with the Moskva, this reading is also taken with a large grain of salt.
In Kiev, the possibility is now being considered that Admiral Osipov was aboard the Moskva when it was hit by two Ukrainian missiles and eventually sank, writes The Mirror.