Russian Colonel killed in Syrian Aleppo

Russian military adviser Colonel Ruslan Galitsky died of wounds sustained in an attack of the so-called moderate Syrian opposition on a residential district in Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
 
"Col. Ruslan Galitsky died in the hospital as a result of a serious wound. Russian combat medics fought for his life for several days. The officer was wounded in a shelling of militants of the so-called opposition of a residential district of western Aleppo," Sputnik cited the statement as saying.

Galitsky received a state award posthumously.