Valery Grigoryevich Assapov
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)".
- ^ Andreas Rüesch: Russian general killed in Syria . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 25, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017.
- ↑ Russian general killed fighting ISIS in east Syria . AFP report on al-Arabiya , September 24, 2017, accessed September 25, 2017.
- ↑ В Сирии погиб российский генерал. Kommersant, September 25, 2017, accessed September 25, 2017.
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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 |