{"id":15711,"date":"2024-03-11T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:38:27","slug":"russia-declines-to-comment-if-naval-chief-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/russia-declines-to-comment-if-naval-chief-sacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Declines to Comment if Naval Chief Sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin on Monday declined to comment on reports it had sacked the commander-in-chief of its navy after losing a string of warships to Ukrainian attacks in the Black Sea.<br \/>\nSeveral news outlets including the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper said over the weekend that Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov had been replaced by Northern Fleet commander Alexander Moiseyev.<br \/>\nThe Kremlin refused to comment on the reported appointment, which would typically be announced by presidential decree.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are decrees labelled secret, I cannot comment on them. There were no public decrees on this matter,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<br \/>\nYevmenov, 61, was appointed head of the navy in May 2019.<br \/>\nIf confirmed, his removal would be the biggest shakeup in Russia\u2019s military top brass since the sacking of aerospace force chief Sergei Surovikin last year.<br \/>\nUkrainian forces claim to have destroyed more than two dozen Russian ships since the conflict began in February 2022, including a military patrol boat last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 The Kremlin on Monday declined to comment on reports it had sacked the commander-in-chief of its navy after losing a string of warships to Ukrainian attacks in the Black Sea. Several news outlets including the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper said over the weekend that Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov had been replaced by Northern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15713,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions\/15713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}