A Russian general has died of unknown causes just weeks after reportedly being sent to Syria to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad.
Colonel-General Igor Sergun was the head of Russia’s secretive GRU military intelligence service and Deputy Chief of the armed forces General Staff.
The Ministry of Defence gave no information on how or where he died, saying he passed away on 3 January aged 58.
Igor Sergun died suddenly of unknown causes in January
But the Financial Times reports that Col-Gen Sergun had been sent to Damascus by Vladimir Putin on a sensitive mission to ask the Syrian President to step …read more
Source: Iranian.com
