JAKARTA - Deputy Supreme Commander of the Russian Navy Major General Mikhail Gudkov was killed in the Kursk area, reported the Governor of the Primorye Region Oleg Kozhemyako reporting via Telegram.
Maj. Gen. Gudkov's loyal friend, Nariman Shikhaliyev, was also killed, Kozhemyako added.
"I extend my deepest condolences to the family, friends and fellow soldiers Mikhail Gudkov, Nariman Shikhaliyev, and all the other fighters who died in the Kursk Region," the governor of the region in Russia's Far East wrote in a post on Telegram, launching TASS July 3.
According to him, Major General Gudkov is a strong-willed fighter who never stop visiting the position of naval troops, even after he assumed the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed on Thursday that Major General Gudkov was killed while carrying out combat missions in the Kursk Region border area on July 2.
Major General Gudkov (42) participated in a special military operation as Commander of the 155th Separate Navy Infantry Brigade since February 24, 2022.
In March 2025, he was appointed Deputy Supreme Commander of the Russian Navy. President Vladimir Putin announced the appointment of Major General Gudkov in a meeting with the sailors of the nuclear-powered submarine Arkhangelsk.
The head of state then assigned Major General Gudkov to lead the entire naval infantry and all the Navy's missile forces and coastal artillery.
Major General Gudkov was awarded the highest military award in the Kremlin by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February, quoted by Reuters.
An unofficial Russian and Ukrainian military Telegram channel previously reported Major General Gudkov was killed along with other soldiers and officers in a Ukrainian missile attack on a command post in Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, with US-made HIMARS missiles.
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The death of Major General Gudkov extended the death of a senior Russian general who had died since the war in Ukraine broke out in 2022.
Previously, Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky became Russia's first senior general to die on the battlefield. He was shot by snipers in the Kyiv region on February 28, 2022.
Next was Major General Vladimir Frolov who was reportedly also shot dead by a sniper in April. After Major General Kanamat Botashev, Lt. Gen. Roman Kutuzov, Major General Sergei Goryachev, Lt. Gen. Oleg Tsokov, Kayjen Vladimir Zavadsky, Major General Pavel Klimenko, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, and Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik.
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