“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.
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.
Since the start of the Russian military operation in Syria, 22 Russian military personnel have died, according to RBC media outlet citing official data.
