Medvedev dismissed officers after navy base fire
Five high ranking officers have been dismissed by Dmitry Medvedev for failing to prevent the fire at the aviation supply base near Kolomna on Sunday. Head of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky was also given a reprimand.
President Dmitry Medvedev, who cut short a working vacation in Sochi to return to the capital, dismissed five senior military officials for not preventing a wildfire from roaring through a base in the Moscow region and threatened to show “no sympathy” toward any other government official found liable in connection with the fires, newspaper Kommersant reports.
Media reports have said 200 aircraft were destroyed in the blaze, but this information has not been confirmed by official channels.
Medvedev fired the Deputy Commander of the Navy’s Support services Rear Admiral Sergey Sergeyev, the Commander of the Navy’s aviation unit, Major General Nikolai Kuklev and his deputy, Colonel Sergei Rasskazov. Also the head of the supply base and one other senior logistics official were fired.
He also reprimanded Navy commander Vladimir Vysotsky and his deputy, Alexander Tatarinov.
-“If something similar happens in other places, in other agencies, I’ll do exactly the same thing, with no sympathy, Medvedev said.
Watch video from the former secret base in Kolomna on Vesti.ru (in Russian)
