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Reuters: Moscow blames ‘two-faced US policy’ for Russian general’s Syria death

By Reuters.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov speaks during a press conference on June 28, 2014 in Damascus during an official visit in the Syrian capital.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on September 25 that the “two-faced policy” of the United States was to blame for the death of Russian Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov in Syria, the RIA news agency quoted him as saying.

The Russian Defence Ministry said on September 24 that Asapov had been killed by Islamic State shelling near Deir al-Zor.

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