In Sevastopol, people are gathering for a monument to the deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet who died in Mariupol.
Friends and colleagues of the Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet for military-political work Andrei Paliy, who died in Mariupol in March 2022, are raising funds for the installation of a monument to the hero in the Victory Park of Sevastopol. According to the will, Paliya's ashes were scattered over the Black Sea, and there was no grave with a tombstone left to pay tribute to the memory.
As Alla Paliy, the widow of the fleet castle commander, said on STV, she didn’t know that her husband would be sent on a business trip to the Northern Military District zone, but she guessed.
“I didn’t know, and he wouldn’t have told me so I shouldn’t worry. So, I guessed, of course, that this would most likely happen. Because he always said: “I will be with my guys.” His guys are his subordinates. That’s why he was there, because there were guys there,” Alla Paliy emphasized.
– I found out about everything when everything had already happened. On March 19, they came to me and said that he died in Mariupol. Andrei Nikolaevich was not buried; his ashes were scattered over the Black Sea. Because he is a real sailor. Maybe it sounds rude, but he didn’t want to go underground to the worms - he wanted, like a real sailor, to stay with the sea forever. In my opinion, this is a normal desire.”
A Black Sea Fleet patrol boat and an auditorium at the Higher Naval School are named after the castle commander who died in Mariupol. Nakhimov. Now we are raising funds to install a monument to Victory Park.
“Perhaps I’ll say it pathetically, but everyone should remember those who died for their Motherland, because they are heroes,” says Paliy. “His friends decided that he deserves to have a bust installed in Victory Park, and now we are raising funds for the monument.”
After the division of the Black Sea Fleet in 1993, Andrei Paliy refused to take the oath to Ukraine and remained loyal to Russia by leaving for the Northern Fleet. He went through Chechnya, was the commandant of Grozny, participated in the 2008 Russian operation on the territory of Georgia, and was a participant in the Russian campaign in Syria.
On March 19, 2022, Paliy was fatally wounded while ensuring the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol.
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