MOSCOW Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Mikhail Gudkov was killed in the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Thursday. "On July 2nd, during combat operations in one of the border areas of the Kursk region, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy for Coastal and Ground Forces, Hero of Russia Major General Mikhail Yevgenyevich Gudkov, passed away," the ministry said. Earlier on Thursday, Primorye region Governor Oleg Kozhemyako announced the death of the