The recent death of Russian general who was one of the key figures in Ukrainian campaign makes us wonder about future fortune of other key people who are involved in the conflict. As we know, a chief of Russian military advisory group Valeriy Asapov died last Sunday in Syria. For some reasons he was in zone of mortar fire in Deirez-Zor Syria where died with two other colonels under strange circumstances. According to a source in Syria the fire was conducted on an accurate aiming so the bomb landed directly into the command post with the general. Another interesting thing is that only command staff of Russian military forces in Syria knew the location of Asapov, and this fact gives us a serious reason to think about real circumstances of his death.
According to his biography, it is known that for a long period of time he was a commander of so called “DPR” 1-st army corps. In July 2015, he was sent on the official journey to Rostov on Don and, using cover name Primakov, was a commander of Russian military forces and separatists at the East of Ukraine. In 2016, he got the rank of lieutenant general. During this period of time his name often occurred in most cases of internecine separatists disassembles, he was in charge of the most smuggling operations and spheres of business influence redistribution in Donetsk and the region. Moreover, he was in charge of a variety of military operations where Russian personnel died and it caused some problems for Russian government. According to the information of colleagues «he was over-aware and became one of the key personalities in the Ukrainian issue», that why «it was decided to send him to the theatre of war in Syria». However, while being in Syria, he continued to supervise «working schemes» on Donbass through trustees in so-called “DPR”. This situation was frustrating for Moscow, so they resolved the problem forever, demonstrating the whole world and people involved in the Ukrainian issue, that Kremlin is a key player in this region. The general was not the first well known victim of Russia’s campaign in Ukraine, and, taking in mind last tendency on Donbass, not the last one. The best way to get rid of unwanted people, especially who was a part of military campaign in Ukraine, is a «heroic death» of Russian personnel in Syria. To be continued…