Deputy head of Russian Navy killed by Ukraine in Kursk, official says
Unofficial Russian and Ukrainian military Telegram channels had earlier reported that Gudkov had been killed along with 10 other servicemen in a Ukrainian attack on a command post in Korenevo in the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine.
(Reporting by Reuters Moscow and Lidia Kelly Writing by Andrew OsbornEditing by Mark Trevelyan)
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