Lieutenant General Valery Asapov, commander of the 5 Combined Arms Army, died in Syria as a result of shelling by ISIS terrorists * ("Islamic State", organization banned in the Russian Federation), the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov was killed in the Syrian Arab Republic as a result of the shelling of ISIS militants *
- the report says.
RIA News cites the message of the Ministry of Defense:
Lieutenant-General Asapov, a senior group of Russian military advisers, was at the command post of the Syrian troops, helping the Syrian commanders to manage the operation to liberate Deir ez-Zor. As a result of a sudden mortar attack on ISIS militants, Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov was mortally wounded by breaking a mine
The command, Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov, is presented posthumously to a high state award, according to the military department.
According to unverified data, there are chances that two colonels were killed along with Valery Asapov, some media reported. Official confirmation of this information at the moment "Military Review" does not have.
ISIS * - terrorist organization banned in Russia
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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