Wow you got the head of recruiting and training. Real prize target there. Totally going to change the course of the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanil_Sarvarov

He led the Russian operations in the Syrian civil war between 2015 and 2016

There we go. That’s why the empire targeted him. Kiev wasn’t the ones that originated the orders. They might have told their agent, but they were ordered by their proxy masters in the US and EU.