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Deputy head of Russian Navy killed by Ukraine in Kursk, official says
Reuters ^ | 7/3/2025 | Reuters Moscow and Lidia Kelly

Posted on 07/03/2025 4:50:40 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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, said on Thursday.

Unofficial Russian and Ukrainian military Telegram channels had earlier reported that Gudkov had been killed along with 10 other servicemen in a Ukrainian attack on a command post in Korenevo in the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine.

He is one of the most senior Russian military officers to have been killed by Ukraine since Moscow launched its full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022.

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1 posted on 07/03/2025 4:50:40 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Luckily for Putin, Zelenski doesn’t have any cards to play.


2 posted on 07/03/2025 4:54:43 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin
Prior to being appointed deputy commander of the Navy, Mikhail Gudkov led the 155th Separate Marine Brigade, a unit that took part in the February 2022 occupation of areas north of Kyiv, including Bucha where numerous war crimes against civilians took place.
3 posted on 07/03/2025 4:59:25 AM PDT by tlozo
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His #2, Lieutenant Colonel Nariman Shikhaliyev was liquidated, too.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 5:06:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Dr. Franklin
Ukraine also liquidated the commander of the Black Sea Fleet Vice Admiral Ildar Akhmetov in Crimea yesterday.


5 posted on 07/03/2025 5:10:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

This is modern war and we’re lucky it’s happening somewhere far away first. Using modern remote-control technology anyone anywhere can be droned or bombed. There’s little to no protection available. The building you work in can be armored against most low-level threats and as long as it isn’t high value, you’re safe there. But you get into a car. You walk into your house. Those can be spread across a wall screen or a phone screen miles away and “Boom!” Frankly I’ve wondered why no one has brought down a passenger jet using a drone or modle airplane as anyone can get close enough to an airport to visually guide the homemade ordinance into the target.

I think the reason it hasn’t happened yet is because, despite the daily does of blood on the news the world has, until the Ukraine conflict, been a peaceful place. But with China on the verge of collapse, North Korea feeling emboldened, Iran heading to revolution, Pakistan in collapse and Russia not far behind, conflicts from all over the world will have aftershocks and remote detonations in the US. Look at how the Air Force stores their planes in the open and compare that with the pasting Russian planes are taking and tell me no one is going to take a free, anonymous shot at a B2 that costs more than most naval vessels a decade ago.


6 posted on 07/03/2025 5:28:35 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: marcusmaximus

Does the Russian Navy have a single ship that still floats?


7 posted on 07/03/2025 5:28:36 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: marcusmaximus

Does the Russian Navy have a single ship that still floats?


8 posted on 07/03/2025 5:28:36 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Dr. Franklin; tlozo

Ukraine also just liquidated the mayor of Russian-occupied Luhansk 2 hours ago. Boom!


9 posted on 07/03/2025 5:29:52 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Colt1851Navy

No navy to command so Putin sent him to Kursk to die.


10 posted on 07/03/2025 5:30:53 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Gen.Blather

Just as Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931, set the wheels in motion to WWII, the Ukraine War is setting a lot of wheels in motion.


11 posted on 07/03/2025 5:36:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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12 posted on 07/03/2025 5:38:20 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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His uniform marks him as a general in the Russian Naval Infantry - essentially Russian marines. Which explains why he's a general rather than an Admiral.

So that's why he would have been inland around Kursk.

13 posted on 07/03/2025 5:44:49 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

The Mayor? Lol. Lordy.

Meanwhile Russia continues to push into Ukraine. To what is the point of liquidating folks who don’t actually slow down the enemy? Simple attrition is not a war Ukraine can win.


14 posted on 07/03/2025 5:47:07 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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According to a former Russian official being interviewed by a UK source, the Russians had been putting out propaganda about the decline of America for a long time. When Biden created the Afghan withdrawal fiasco, Putin believed it meant the stories about decline were true. He took it as the signal to take Ukraine.

A man who had written extensively on China said that the Chinese viewed Obama as so idiotically wishy-washy they decided to expand and build more islands in their “nine dash line.”

In both cases had America had a competent president, probably none of this would have happened. America is losing its deterrence value. AS long as we have deterrence we won’t need to fight. But periodically America loses its alertness to danger while it goes off staring at its bellybutton and wondering if men need Tampons. Every time that happens someone somewhere will gobble up one of his neighbors making the world a more dangerous place.


15 posted on 07/03/2025 5:56:31 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: MrRelevant

The occupation authorities in the Russian occupied territories are being liquidated, too.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 6:11:26 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: MrRelevant
Ex mayor of occupied Luhansk Manolis Pilavov rests in pieces.


17 posted on 07/03/2025 6:19:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Dr. Franklin; tlozo
Confirmed: Acting commander of the 8th Army of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Ruslan Goryachkin liquidated in Donestk on June 30th.



18 posted on 07/03/2025 6:24:51 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

You mean civilians are okay? Got it.


19 posted on 07/03/2025 6:36:25 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

Occupation collaborator.


20 posted on 07/03/2025 6:43:17 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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