Egypt’s Gen. El-Sisi meets Russian Dep CoS Kondrashov in Cairo

In the highest-level official meeting in decades, Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi Wednesday received Lt. Gen. Vyacheslav Kondrashov, Russia’s Dep. Chief of Staff and director of military intelligence in Cairo. Both sides declined to reveal the contents of their discussion. DEBKAfile: The two generals were well acquainted from the time that El-Sisi was head of Egyptian military intelligence.