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Death in Lebanon
Former US President Donald Trump President Michael Flynn, during the interrogation, told the FBI agents that the former chief of GRU Igor Sergun died in 2016 in Lebanon. According to the official version, Sergun died in the boarding house near Moscow, although the information that his life was cut off in the Middle East had appeared earlier.
The interrogation of Flynn took place in January 2017, but the materials were published only now by the apparatus of the special prosecutor Robert Müller, who is investigating the case of “Russian intervention” in the US presidential election. About this writes RBC.
Michael Flynn-retired Lieutenant General, in 2012-14. He was the director of the intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense, was also the commander of the joint command of the functional component on reconnaissance, observation and reconnaissance and a member of the military intelligence council. For several weeks, from January 20 to February 20, 2017 he was an adviser to the US President in National Security.
D. Tramp and M. Flynn / Twitter.comThe national security adviser is chosen by the President without coordination with the Senate, but has his own apparatus, which makes him independent from the State Department and the Ministry of Defense. US presidents use nation-defense advisers differently, sometimes their influence is quite large.
Michael Flynn was forced to resign after information appeared in the press about his contacts with Russian Sergei Kislyak (held this post in 2008-2017) to discuss anti-Russian sanctions.
The documents published by Robert Muller said that Flynn was on a business trip in Russia in 2013, during which he met Sergun. After that, they communicated at least once with each other in the video, Sergun also had to arrive on a response visit to the United States. However, the trip did not take place due to the cooling of the relations of the two countries as a result of the accession of Crimea to Russia and the beginning of hostilities in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The United States and the European Union brought Sergun to the sanctions lists in 2014 due to the "activity of GRU officers in eastern Ukraine."
Joint exercises of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the USA / Flickr.comFlynn said that they were connected by a common military past, as well as the fight against terrorism. According to the American military, they “shared stories” about the conflict in Afghanistan, where Flynn served in 2002. Sergun, in turn, spoke about the scars that he received during the wars in Chechnya. It is also noted in the note of the special prosecutor that the sons of Sergun and Flynn are peers.
According to the official Russian version, Igor Sergun died on January 3, 2016 in the Moscow region, the reason was acute heart failure. However, shortly after the death of Sergun, information appeared that, in fact, he died on January 1 in Lebanon (by that time the Russian operation in Syria has lasted three months already)-but all official sources, including the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, refuted this information.
RF Armed Forces in Syria / mil.syria.ruMoreover, as the British newspaper Financial Times wrote , a few weeks before his death, Sergun, on behalf of Vladimir Putin, confidentially visited Damascus, where he transferred a message from the President of Russia to the Syrian leader Bashar Assad to resign. According to unnamed high -ranking NATO intelligence representatives, Assad refused.