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| Russian paramedic killed, 2 more injured in militant attack on hospital in Aleppo – MoD | Russian paramedic killed, 2 more injured in militant attack on hospital in Aleppo – MoD |
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| A female Russian medical specialist has been killed and two more medics have been injured in a militant shelling of a mobile military hospital in Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry said. | A female Russian medical specialist has been killed and two more medics have been injured in a militant shelling of a mobile military hospital in Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry said. |
| “Today, between 12:21 and 12:30pm [local time], a medical center of the Russian Defense Ministry’s mobile hospital in Aleppo was shelled by the militants during the reception time,” ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told journalists, adding that “as a result of the direct hit of the reception ward, one female Russian military medic was killed [and] two medical specialists were severely injured.” | “Today, between 12:21 and 12:30pm [local time], a medical center of the Russian Defense Ministry’s mobile hospital in Aleppo was shelled by the militants during the reception time,” ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told journalists, adding that “as a result of the direct hit of the reception ward, one female Russian military medic was killed [and] two medical specialists were severely injured.” |
| Some local residents attending medical appointments were also injured during the shelling that targeted one of the field hospitals set up in the government held part of the city, the ministry added. | Some local residents attending medical appointments were also injured during the shelling that targeted one of the field hospitals set up in the government held part of the city, the ministry added. |
| “One [militant] shell hit the reception ward, killing one nurse and severely injuring another one,” Vladimir Savchenko, the head of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria told journalists, adding that the head of the hospital was also injured. | “One [militant] shell hit the reception ward, killing one nurse and severely injuring another one,” Vladimir Savchenko, the head of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria told journalists, adding that the head of the hospital was also injured. |
| “The hospital was far from the frontline. Now it’s totally destroyed,” Savchenko added. | |
| The Russian Defense Ministry attributes the blame for the incident to “terrorists and their patrons in the US, the UK and France.” | The Russian Defense Ministry attributes the blame for the incident to “terrorists and their patrons in the US, the UK and France.” |
| “It is beyond doubt that the shelling was conducted by the ‘opposition’ militants. Moscow understands who gave the Syrian militants the coordinates of the Russian hospital right at the moment when it started working,” Konashenkov said. | “It is beyond doubt that the shelling was conducted by the ‘opposition’ militants. Moscow understands who gave the Syrian militants the coordinates of the Russian hospital right at the moment when it started working,” Konashenkov said. |
| “Full responsibility for the killing and injuring of our medics, who were treating children in Aleppo, lies not only with the actual perpetrators [of this crime], that is with the ‘opposition’ militants. The blood of our military personnel is on the hands of the people who ordered the hit … [on the hands] of the terrorists’ patrons from the US, the UK, France and other terrorist sympathizers,” Konashenkov said. | “Full responsibility for the killing and injuring of our medics, who were treating children in Aleppo, lies not only with the actual perpetrators [of this crime], that is with the ‘opposition’ militants. The blood of our military personnel is on the hands of the people who ordered the hit … [on the hands] of the terrorists’ patrons from the US, the UK, France and other terrorist sympathizers,” Konashenkov said. |
| RT’s Lizzie Phelan reports from Aleppo that the city is subject to non-stop shelling by the militants and the hospital that was targeted was overcrowded with injured civilians, including children. | |
| Phelan said “nine mortar shells landed in the area” of the Russian hospital. | |
| After the shelling of the hospital, an RT crew with a producer from RT Arabic, Somar Abudiab, arrived at the scene. They were filming when the shelling resumed and Abudiab was injured by a shell fragment. | |
| “The hospital was in open terrain and had clear identification markings – it was clearly seen,” Savchenko said, adding that the militants “still used this situation and carried out a massive strike against [the facility] … in defiance of the international regulations, of the humanitarian law that forbids the shelling of hospitals.” |