03-07-2025
Deputy head of Russian Navy killed by Ukraine in Kursk, official says
MOSCOW (Reuters) -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 on Thursday.
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)
