“President Putin expresses deep condolences on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev.
In the morning, he will send a telegram of condolences to his family and friends," Peskov told RIA Novosti.
Earlier, the agency reported that Gorbachev died at the age of 92 after a serious and prolonged illness.
On May 10, it became known that the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, had died.