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 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.
The Kursk region has seen heavy fighting.Credit: AP
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