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| Russian colonel dies after ‘opposition’ shelling in Aleppo – MoD | Russian colonel dies after ‘opposition’ shelling in Aleppo – MoD |
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| A Russian military adviser has died in Syria after shelling in Aleppo ‘by the so-called opposition forces,’ the Russian Ministry of Defense has stated. | |
| The deceased serviceman, identified as Colonel Ruslan Galitsky, was working with a group of Russian military counselors, the ministry added. | The deceased serviceman, identified as Colonel Ruslan Galitsky, was working with a group of Russian military counselors, the ministry added. |
| “Colonel Ruslan Galitsky has died in the hospital from severe wounds. Russian military doctors had been fighting for his life for a few days. The serviceman was wounded during shelling of a residential neighborhood in western Aleppo by militants of the so-called opposition,” the ministry’s statement said as cited by RIA Novosti. | |
| Russian news outlets are circulating the purported photo of Ruslan Galitsy, but the authenticity of the image is not yet confirmed. | |
| The adviser would be posthumously given a top military award, according to TASS news agency. | |
| READ MORE: 2 Russian paramedics killed, 1 gravely injured in militant attack on hospital in Aleppo | |
| It comes a couple of days after rebel militants shelled a Russian field hospital in Aleppo, killing two paramedics, Nadezhda Durachenko and Galina Mikhaylova, and severely wounding the chief pediatrician, Vadym Arsentyev. |