A RUSSIAN naval captain suspected of being behind a deadly missile strike in Ukraine has been killed.
Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, is believed to have been followed by an assassin who gunned him down as he jogged in the Russian city of Krasnodar.
Rzhitsky commanded a submarine that allegedly fired at Ukrainian city Vinnytsia, killing 27, one year ago.
Among the victims of the submarine missile bombardment was tragic four-year-old Liza Dmitrieva.
She was in a pushchair and with her mother Irina when they were brutally hit.