Russian fleets will be withdrawn from subordination of military districts – Kommersant

Four fleets and the Caspian flotilla will be returned to direct direct subordination to the main command of the Russian Navy, the source said. TASSclose to the Navy. They will be withdrawn from subordination to the military districts. The Northern Fleet will retain the status of a military district with reassignment to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

As the interlocutor of the Russian state agency explained, the fleet and flotilla will be withdrawn “from the dual subordination in which they were previously.” “Now these associations will initially be operationally subordinate in peacetime to the Navy High Command, and subsequently — in direct subordination, as it was before,” the TASS source explained.

The operational-strategic formations of the Navy are the Baltic Fleet (Western Military District), the Northern Fleet (as part of the Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command), the Pacific Fleet (Eastern Military District), the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla (Southern Military District).

Earlier in April, it became known about the reshuffle in the leadership of the two fleets. Was fired Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sergei Avakyants. By information TASS and RIA Novosti, his place was taken by the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Admiral Vladimir Liina. Vice-Admiral Vladimir Vorobyov became the commander of the Baltic Fleet. Information about the reshuffles appeared during a sudden check on the Pacific Fleet.

Leonid Uvarchev