General and six other officers of Northern Fleet of RF killed in crash of An-26 plane in Crimea - media

The passengers of the An-26 military transport plane of the army of the aggressor country of russia, which crashed in the occupied Crimea, were officers of the Northern Fleet of the russian federation. The Telegram channel "Dossier of a Spy" reported this with reference to its own sources.

According to the channel, among those killed in the plane crash was Lieutenant General Aleksandr Otroshchenko. At the time of his death, he held the position of commander of the mixed aviation corps of the Northern Fleet. Before that, he commanded the 45th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Northern Fleet.

Along with Otroshchenko, six officers of military unit No. 45625 (Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast) was also killed in the plane crash. Their names and ranks are not specified.

An-26 aircraft of the russian armed forces (archive image). Photo: Wikimedia.

A little later, BBC News also reported the death of General Otroshchenko, citing its own sources. The publication notes that in 2014 he took an active part in the operation of the aggressor country of russia to annex Crimea. Otroshchenko also took part in the russian operation in Syria.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, last Tuesday, March 31, an An-26 plane crashed in the occupied Crimea. There were 29 people on board: six crew members and 23 servicemen of the russian army. None of them survived. The russian Defense Ministry stated that the cause of the plane crash was a technical malfunction of the plane.

Recall that on March 20, in the west of the Donetsk Region, servicemen of the Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down a russian Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter using an FPV drone. The crew survived during landing, but later they finished it off with a UAV.

We also wrote that at least 19 russian army generals were killed from February 2022 to January 2026. Three of them were eliminated in 2025.

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