Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy for Coastal and Land Forces Mikhail Gudkov was killed in combat in the Kursk region, the Ministry of Defense reported.
Primorsky Krai Governor Oleg Kozhemyako said that Gudkov died “while performing his duty as an officer alongside his fellow soldiers.”
“We communicated a lot with Mikhail Evgenievich. He was a strong-willed warrior who could not imagine himself anywhere else but in the navy. Even after becoming deputy commander-in-chief of the Navy, he continued to personally visit the positions of our marines,” Kozhemyako wrote.
Gudkov was just over 40 years old. We wrote about his appointment and the importance of such a precedent for the army.
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