In addition to these flag officers, a number of senior officers have been killed by Ukrainian forces; on 23 March, Ukrainian official Mykhailo Podoliak stated that their forces had killed "dozens of colonels and other officers".[47][48] That day, The Times counted 5 Russian colonels killed in Ukraine so far.[49] On 11 May, MSN reported a total of 42 colonels allegedly killed.[50] By the end of April, at least 317 Russian officers had been killed, a third of them majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.[51] A Ukrainian official told The Wall Street Journal that a unit of Ukrainian military intelligence was collecting information of the positions of Russian officers, including generals, artillery commanders, and pilots.[6][30] High-ranking casualties in the Russian navy include captain 1st rank Andrei Paliy, the deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet.[52][53] Anton Kurpin, the commander of the Russian cruiser Moskva, has also been reported as killed, although the Russians have not confirmed this.[54]