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“Valery Trankovsky, chief of staff and deputy commander of the 41st Brigade of Missile Ships and Boats of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was killed in a car bombing in Sevastopol in November 2024.”
Multiple reliable Russian, international, and official sources support that Valery Trankovsky was killed in a car bombing in Sevastopol on 13 November 2024. The strongest reports also identify him as chief of staff and deputy commander of the 41st Brigade of Missile Ships and Boats of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Minor title variations in some coverage do not alter the substance.
“The United States Department of Defense, via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), planned renovations to School No. 5 in Sevastopol, Crimea in 2013, before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.”
U.S. government contracting records show NAVFAC sought bids in 2013 to renovate School No. 5 in Sevastopol, then canceled the project in 2014 after the Ukraine crisis. That means the renovation was planned before Russia’s March 2014 annexation of Crimea. The evidence does not support claims that the school project was really a U.S. naval base scheme.