Valery Grigoryevich Assapov

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Valery Assapov (2013)

Valery Grigoryevich Assapov ( Russian Валерий Григорьевич Асапов ; born January 1, 1966 in Malmysch , Kirov Oblast ; † September 23, 2017 in Deir ez-Zor , Syria ) was a Russian lieutenant general .

career

From 2000 to 2003 Assapov commanded a paratrooper regiment that was deployed as a peacekeeping force in Abkhazia after the conflict with Georgia .

From 2003 to 2007 he was deputy commander of the 98th Guards Airborne Division. From 2010 to 2011 he completed a general staff course in Moscow.

Assapov was the commander of a motorized rifle brigade with the rank of colonel from 2011 to 2013 and was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland by President Vladimir Putin in February 2013 .

During the restructuring of the 68th Corps in April 2014, it was announced that he, now with the rank of major general, had taken over command of a division.

The Ukrainian secret service is convinced that Assapov unofficially led associations in the Donetsk area for several weeks during the war in Ukraine under the code name “Primakov” . He was wanted by Ukraine as a war criminal .

According to the Russian Defense Ministry Valery Assapow was on 23 September 2017 Syrian civil war with a grenade launcher attack of IS killed in a command post in Deir ez-Zor.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Військовослужбовці ЗС Росії, які беруть участь у бойових діях на території України : злочинець Військовий, генерал-лейтенант ЗС РФ АСАПОВ Валерій Григорович (прізвище прикриття - Примаков) . Ukrainian Defense Ministry, retrieved on September 25, 2017 (Ukrainian): "Soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces participating in the fighting on the territory of Ukraine: War Criminal, Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Assapov (last alias: Primakov)".
  2. ^ Andreas Rüesch: Russian general killed in Syria . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 25, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Russian general killed fighting ISIS in east Syria . AFP report on al-Arabiya , September 24, 2017, accessed September 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ В Сирии погиб российский генерал. Kommersant, September 25, 2017, accessed September 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Assapov, Valery Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Асапов, Валерий Григорьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmysch
DATE OF DEATH 23 September 2017
Place of death Deir ez-Zor , Syria