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Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ukraine kills one of the highest-ranking Russian officers of the conflict
The deputy chief of the Russian Navy has been killed by Ukraine in Russia's Kursk region, Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of the Primorsky region in Russia's far east, said Thursday. Guards Maj. Gen. Mikhail Gudkov, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy who also led a brigade that fought in Ukraine, was killed in the Russian border region that saw a successful Ukrainian incursion last year. He is one of Russia's highest-ranking officers to have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. Kozhemyako previously handed Gudkov awards for bravery and said the two had spoken a lot over the years in a statement announcing the death. He described Gudkov as a 'strong-willed warrior' who had 'died while performing his duty as an officer together with his fellow soldiers.' Kozhemyako did not provide any further details on the circumstances of Gudkov's death. Russia's Ministry of Defense confirmed Gudkov's death on Thursday, saying he was killed in combat in the Kursk region. There has been no immediate comment from Ukraine. Gudkov was appointed as the deputy chief of the Russian Navy for coastal and ground forces by President Vladimir Putin in March. Putin said at the time: 'Since the minister and the Chief of the General Staff believe that your experience needs to be replicated in other units, I have decided to transfer you to a position - to increase your level of responsibility.' The Ukrainian military had previously accused Gudkov and other members of his former 155th brigade of committing war crimes in Ukraine, including the killing of civilians in the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Gostomel in the early months of Russia's war. Separately, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has said the 155th brigade was involved in executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Russia has consistently denied committing war crimes in Ukraine, despite evidence gathered by the Ukrainians and international investigators.
RNZ News
03-07-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Ukraine kills one of the highest-ranking Russian officers of the conflict
By Anna Chernova, Svitlana Vlasova and Ivana Kottasová , CNN The death was confirmed by Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of the Primorsky region. Photo: AFP / Kim Won Jin The deputy chief of the Russian Navy has been killed by Ukraine in Russia's Kursk region, Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of the Primorsky region in Russia's far east, said on Thursday (ukraine time). Guards Major General Mikhail Gudkov, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy who also led a brigade that fought in Ukraine, was killed in the Russian border region that saw a successful Ukrainian incursion last year. He is one of Russia's highest-ranking officers to have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. Kozhemyako previously handed Gudkov awards for bravery and said the two had spoken a lot over the years in a statement announcing the death. He described Gudkov as a "strong-willed warrior" who had "died while performing his duty as an officer together with his fellow soldiers". Kozhemyako did not provide any further details on the circumstances of Gudkov's death. Russia's Ministry of Defence confirmed Gudkov's death on Thursday, saying he was killed in combat in the Kursk region. There has been no immediate comment from Ukraine. Gudkov was appointed as the deputy chief of the Russian Navy for coastal and ground forces by President Vladimir Putin in March. Putin said at the time: "Since the minister and the Chief of the General Staff believe that your experience needs to be replicated in other units, I have decided to transfer you to a position - to increase your level of responsibility." The Ukrainian military had previously accused Gudkov and other members of his former 155th brigade of committing war crimes in Ukraine, including the killing of civilians in the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Gostomel in the early months of Russia's war. Separately, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has said the 155th brigade was involved in executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Russia has consistently denied committing war crimes in Ukraine, despite evidence gathered by the Ukrainians and international investigators. -CNN
The Guardian
03-07-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Deputy commander of Russian navy killed in strike near Ukraine frontline
A deputy commander of the Russian navy who had previously led one of the military's most notorious brigades has been killed near the frontline with Ukraine, Moscow has confirmed. Maj Gen Mikhail Gudkov, who was responsible for Russia's marine units, was killed on Wednesday in a Ukrainian missile attack on a field headquarters in the Kursk region, amid reports the position had been revealed by poor security. Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of Primorsky Krai in Russia's far east, said Gudkov had died 'performing his duty as an officer alongside his fellow soldiers' and that despite his rank, he 'continued to personally visit the positions of our marines'. Russia's ministry of defence confirmed later that Gudkov had been killed 'during combat operations' in the border areas of Kursk region on Wednesday, though there were some reports on social media that the attack had happened a day earlier. Reports of Gudkov's death came as Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump during a telephone call that Russia was not ready to negotiate over the 'root causes' of its invasion of Ukraine, indicating that Moscow was unlikely to grant concessions during ceasefire talks in the near future. 'Our president said Russia will be seeking to achieve its goals, ie the elimination of the universally known root causes which led to the current situation, the current acute confrontation,' said the Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov during a conference call with journalists. 'Russia will not abandon these goals.' Putin had previously defined the 'root causes' of the conflict as a series of developments in the post-Soviet space since 1991, including the expansion of Nato to eastern Europe, Ukraine's desire to join western economic and security blocs, and the country's independent foreign and military policy. Russia did say it was ready to continue negotiations directly with Ukraine, but many of Russia's demands are seen as non-starters in Kyiv, particularly three years into a war that some studies claim has killed or wounded more than 1 million soldiers and left all of Ukraine's major cities scarred by deadly Russian missile and drone strikes. Gudkov had been personally promoted by Putin in March, having led the 155th Marine Brigade, a frontline unit repeatedly reconstituted because so many of its members had been killed. A Russian Telegram channel, MiG 41, said that according to 'unofficial information' the base may have been revealed by a mole, or discovered by Ukrainian military intelligence after some marines called family and friends in Vladivostok as the eastern city began to celebrate its city day on Wednesday. At least four missiles were said to have struck the base, a city publication reported, and a number of other senior officers were killed in the attack near the village of Korenevo in the Kursk region, about 19 miles (30km) from the front. A social media posting from a Russian servicemen's organisation said more than 10 others were killed alongside him, including the brigade's new commander. Members of the 155th brigade, originally considered an elite unit, have been accused of war crimes by Kyiv during the course of the war, such as the execution of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kursk region last summer. A captured Russian marine said he had witnessed the killing of two other PoWs a month earlier in the same sector. The Russian unit participated in the failed attempt to take Kyiv in spring 2022, and was then involved in the repeated offensives at Vuhledar in 2023 in the south-east corner of the frontline, before being redeployed to fight off Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk province. Gudkov is one of at least 10 Russian major generals or lieutenant generals to have been killed in the war so far. Some of the attacks appear carefully planned by Ukraine, though on the evidence so far the hit on Gudkov looks opportunistic. Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian military's chemical, biological and radiological weapons unit, was killed after a bomb detonated outside his apartment in December. Ukraine's SBU security service claimed responsibility for the operation. In April, Yaroslav Moskalik, the deputy head of the main operations directorate of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, died after a car exploded in the town of Balashikha outside Moscow in April. Though Ukraine did not say it was behind this attack, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, praised the country's foreign intelligence for the killing of top Russian military figures. An explosion on Thursday also killed Manolis Pilavov, a former mayor of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, Russian authorities said. Pilavov ran the city's administration for nine years after it was separated from Ukraine in 2014 and was wanted by Kyiv for violating the integrity of the country. Across Ukraine, three people were reported killed and 34 injured in Russian air attacks in different parts of the country on Thursday. Ukraine's air force said 52 Shahed and dummy drones were launched by Moscow's forces, with it successfully intercepting or jamming 40 of them. Earlier this week, it emerged that the US had paused the delivery of Patriot air defence missile interceptors and other precision weapons to Ukraine amid concerns about the level of its stockpiles. Trump said last month that Patriot missiles had been given to Israel to help it defend itself from Iran. The US president and Zelenskyy were expected to discuss the issue on Friday, the Financial Times reported. Zelenskyy said on Wednesday: 'One way or another, we must ensure protection for our people.'
CTV News
03-07-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Ukraine kills one of the highest-ranking Russian officers of the conflict
Flowers placed in front of a photograph of Maj. Gen. Mikhail Gudkov, the deputy head of the Russian Navy who was recently killed in the Kursk region, at an exhibition of distinguished Russian soldiers' portraits in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia on Thursday, July 3. (Tatiana Meel/Reuters via CNN Newsource) The deputy chief of the Russian Navy has been killed by Ukraine in Russia's Kursk region, Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of the Primorsky region in Russia's far east, said Thursday. Guards Maj. Gen. Mikhail Gudkov, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy who also led a brigade that fought in Ukraine, was killed in the Russian border region that saw a successful Ukrainian incursion last year. He is one of Russia's highest-ranking officers to have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. Kozhemyako previously handed Gudkov awards for bravery and said the two had spoken a lot over the years in a statement announcing the death. He described Gudkov as a 'strong-willed warrior' who had 'died while performing his duty as an officer together with his fellow soldiers.' Kozhemyako did not provide any further details on the circumstances of Gudkov's death. Russia's Ministry of Defence confirmed Gudkov's death on Thursday, saying he was killed in combat in the Kursk region. There has been no immediate comment from Ukraine. Gudkov was appointed as the deputy chief of the Russian Navy for coastal and ground forces by President Vladimir Putin in March. Putin said at the time: 'Since the minister and the Chief of the General Staff believe that your experience needs to be replicated in other units, I have decided to transfer you to a position - to increase your level of responsibility.' The Ukrainian military had previously accused Gudkov and other members of his former 155th brigade of committing war crimes in Ukraine, including the killing of civilians in the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Gostomel in the early months of Russia's war. Separately, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has said the 155th brigade was involved in executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Russia has consistently denied committing war crimes in Ukraine, despite evidence gathered by the Ukrainians and international investigators. By Anna Chernova, Svitlana Vlasova and Ivana Kottasová.
Free Malaysia Today
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Deputy head of Russian navy killed by Ukraine in Kursk
Flowers are placed in front of a photograph of major-general Mikhail Gudkov in Vladivostok following his death today. (Reuters pic) MOSCOW : Major-general Mikhail Gudkov, the deputy head of the Russian navy who also led a brigade fighting against Ukraine, has been killed in Russia's Kursk region, Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of a far eastern Russian region, said today. 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. He is one of the most senior Russian military officers to have been killed by Ukraine since Moscow launched its full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022. Kozhemyako, who said he had spoken to Gudkov a lot over the years, said in a statement that Gudkov had been killed 'carrying out his duty as an officer' along with others, and expressed his condolences to the dead men's relatives. 'When he became deputy chief of the navy, he did not stop personally visiting the positions of our marines,' Kozhemyako said on Telegram. Gudkov had received awards for bravery in military action against Ukraine and been accused by Kyiv of war crimes. Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed him deputy commander-in-chief of the navy in March, according to a statement on the Kremlin's website. There was no immediate comment from the Russian defence ministry or from Ukraine. Gudkov had led a marine brigade of Russia's Pacific fleet, which had been fighting in Kursk. Parts of Kursk were seized by Ukrainian forces in a surprise offensive in August 2024 before Russia said earlier this year it had driven them out.
