△ Deputy Commander of the Russian Navy, Gudkov (Photo)
According to Russian media reports on the 3rd, the deputy commander of the Russian Navy, Mikhail Gudkov, who was confirmed dead, was attacked by enemy missiles during his command post.
The “Arguments and Facts” weekly website reported that a military command post of the Russian Navy’s Marine Corps located in Korenevka, a border town in Kursk Oblast, was attacked by at least four enemy missiles. Gudkov was in charge at the time. According to LNT, a Russian news outlet, Ukrainian radio reconnaissance personnel might have learned about the location of the above-mentioned command post, suggesting there might be spies within the Russian military base. The aforementioned reports have not yet been confirmed by the Russian authorities.
On the 3rd, the Ministry of Defense announced via social media that Gudkov, responsible for maritime and land warfare affairs, was killed in action on the 2nd in a battle near the border of Kursk Oblast.
On the same day, Korchemiak, the administrative head of the Primorsky Krai region, stated on social media that Gudkov and several other Russian military officers were killed while on duty in Kursk Oblast. He mentioned that Gudkov had served as the commander of the 155th Independent Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. The main base of this fleet is located in Vladivostok, the capital of the Primorsky Krai region.
In summary, according to Russian media reports from the 3rd, Gudkov was born on January 11, 1983, graduated from the High Military School of Novosibirsk and the Institute of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and began serving as the Deputy Commander of the Russian Navy in March 2025.
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