[8][7] He entered the M. V. Frunze Military Academy in 1997 and took a degree in 2000, whereafter he was appointed deputy commander of the former 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment that was then part of the peace-keeping force stationed in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.

In June, Col Valery Asapov was appointed commander of the 37th Guards Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (in Kyakhta) of the 36th Army stationed in Buryatia.

[15][16] On 23 February 2013, Col Valery Asapov, then commander of the Motor Rifle brigade, was awarded the 4th Class of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" by Russian president Vladimir Putin.

[18] In early 2014, Maj Gen Asapov assumed command of the 68th Army Corps that was reinstated on the basis of the units already stationed in Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands: the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, and the 39th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade.

[25][26] On 23 September 2017,[27] he was killed by ISIS in the course of the fighting near Deir ez-Zor by mortar fire from ISIL while assisting the Syrian army.

[29][30][31] At the same time, elsewhere in Syria, Russian air strikes killed at least 37 civilians, including 12 children, in several locations and villages in the district of Jisr al-Shughur in northwestern Idlib province.[32][relevant?]

[33] On 26 September 2017, Russia's media reported that, according to the preliminary investigation being conducted by the government of Syria, the killing of Asapov was made possible as a result of the leaking of information about his precise location to the enemy.