By Robert Fisk|The Russian air force arrived in Syria two years ago this week to save President Bashar al-Assad and his army. The Syrian army held out, albeit at the cost of (then) 56,000 of its soldiers. And generals to advise – and, last week, to be killed – in Syria. But the Russian Defence Ministry took the death of their highest-ranking officer in Syria – along with two Russian colonels – very seriously indeed. General Asapov was commander of the Russian 5th army in the Far East Russian city of Ussiriysk, not far from Vladivostok.

Source: GNN Liberia October 06, 2017 09:33 UTC