Former Russian submarine commander Stanislav Rschitzki, wanted for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, has been shot dead while jogging in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. Rzhitzkiy worked in the Krasnodar city administration, where he was responsible for mobilizing recruits.
Investigators are now looking for the perpetrators and a possible motive. According to deputy Duma and former mayor of Krasnodar Yevgeny Pervyshev, Rzhitzki was shot in the back. Russian media speculated that the perpetrators knew the cop’s running route from a jogging app. Accordingly, Rschitzki regularly published his runs on the Internet and did not change his running route.
Kiev: “Liquidated for disobeying orders”
His role as commander of the Black Sea Fleet is controversial. As a submarine commander, he was involved in the shelling of the city of Vinnytsia, the Ukrainian army reported on Tuesday. The city had been bombarded with sea-launched Kalibr missiles.
“However, he later came to the conclusion that such weapons posed great risks to the civilian population,” a statement from Kiev said. “Apparently he was liquidated by his own people because he refused to carry out the orders of the military leadership,” the Ukrainian secret service suspected.
Father contradicts: he did not participate in the war in Ukraine
The dead man’s father contradicts this. The 42-year-old never took part in the war against Ukraine. The Telegram channel Baza quoted the father as saying that he had already submitted a resignation request at the end of 2021, which was granted. The official discharge did not take place until the summer of 2022, but Rschitzki was no longer in command, but was ashore in Sevastopol in Crimea, which had been annexed by Russia since 2014.
Source: Krone
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