A top, decorated Russian naval commander has been killed in Russia’s Kursk region, Russia said Thursday, one of its highest-ranking officers killed in the conflict with Ukraine to date. Maj. Gen. Mikhail Gudkov was the deputy commander in chief of the navy and led a brigade battling Ukrainian forces.

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,

The Russian Navy's deputy commander Mikhail Gudkov was killed during "combat operations" in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, officials in Moscow said Thursday. Gudkov, who was promoted by