Vice chief of the Russian fleet killed

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Lerato Khumalo

War in Ukraine

Vice chief of the Russian fleet killed

Updated on 03.07.2025 – 1:04 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.

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The general general was only appointed deputy commander -in -chief of the Navy in March by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. (Symbol image) (Source: Uncredited/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP/dpa/dpa pictures)

Ukraine has been defending itself against the Russian invasion for more than three years. Again and again she succeeds in sensitive needles. Now she has switched off a high -ranking general.

The vice -chief of the Russian fleet, which is responsible for the marine incorporation, Majac General Mikhail Gudkow, was killed in the border area in the border area through a Ukrainian rocket attack. Gudkow fell in the fulfillment of his duty, said the governor of the Primorje region, Oleg Koschemjako, located at the Pacific.

The Ministry of Defense in Moscow confirmed Russian news agencies the death of the Major General. The Ministry said that he died in combat operations in one of the border areas of the Tense region on Wednesday.

Russian military bloggers first reported on the death of the high -ranking officer. Accordingly, a command point in the district of Korenowo near the border with Ukraine had been shot. More than ten soldiers were killed, many of them high -ranking officers, reported the military blog “Severnnyj”.

Gudkow was only appointed deputy commander -in -chief of the navy in March by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. His area of ​​responsibility was the coordination of marineinfantry and the rocket and artillery units of coastal batteries. What Gudkow has achieved must be extended to other successful commanders, Putin praised the war experience of the Major General in the appointment.

Gudkow had previously headed the 155th marine fantry brigade. “Even when he became the fleet vice -geme, he did not stop to personally go to the positions of our naval fountains,” said Governor Koschemjako in his obituary.

Because the unit is officially stationed in Vladiwostok, the governor of the Primorje region condolized. The brigade had been conflicted into Ukraine shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression. The naval fan people suffered particularly severe losses at the battle around the eastern Ukrainian city of Wuhedar. Kyiv accuses the Brigade participation in war crimes.

Gudkow is not the first Russian general to kill Ukraine in its defense against the invasion. So far, the death of twelve officers in general rank has been confirmed – including Gudkow.