The 52-year-old was on his way back to the frontlines and is believed to have died instantly along with another officer.

Sergey Efremov, deputy governor of the eastern Primorsky Krai region, died fighting in Kursk with a volunteer unit known as the Tigers

Vice Governor of Russia’s Primorsky Krai Sergei Yefremov was killed in Kursk Oblast, Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council,

Sergey Efremov, the deputy governor of the eastern Primorsky Krai region, died in Kursk, where Russian forces have been trying to beat back a Ukrainian invasion since last August. Efremov was reportedly killed along with a military officer on Friday when their vehicle struck a landmine and blew up.