Sergei Yeliseyev (admiral)

Sergei Yeliseyev (born 1962 near Moscow) is a Vice Admiral, former First Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Navy who left Ukrainian military service in favor of Russia in 2014.

He graduated from a Soviet naval school in Kaliningrad in 1983 and previously served with the Russian Pacific Fleet.[1] From 19 February – 1 March 2014, Yeliseyev was acting Commander of Ukrainian Navy as the First Deputy Commander. Early in 2014 during the Crimean Crisis along with another high-ranking military officer Denis Berezovsky, he left the military oath of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and sided with the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Since July 2014, he has served as a Deputy Commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet.

References

  1. ↑ Polityuk, Pavel; Zverev, Anton (24 July 2017). "Why Ukrainian forces gave up Crimea without a fight - and NATO is alert". Reuters.
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