New Commander of the Northern Fleet?
Head of the Armed Forces in North-East Russia Vice Admiral Aleksandr Vitko has been appointed Commander of the Russian Northern Fleet, a Russian news agency reports.
According to the news agency Vostok Media, Vice Admiral Vitko today told a radio station on Kamchatka that he has been appointed new Commander of the Russian Fleet by President Dmitry Medvedev.
Vitko will leave Kamchatka in just a few days, he said to the radio station.
No other Russian media has so far had any reports about the change in leadership in Northern Fleet Head Quarters in Severomorsk.
The current Commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Nikolay Maksimov, was appointed in November 2007, as BarentsObserver then reported.
