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Daily Beast: A Rising Star in the Russian Military Killed in Syria
Col. Galitsky was set for a major promotion, but got a little too close to the action in the slaughterhouse that is Aleppo.
A high-ranking Russian officer, Col. Ruslan Galitsky, who was accused of commanding pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, has been killed in Aleppo, Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin personally confirmed the colonel’s death.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that Galitsky had been killed, and Putin subsequently said that Galitsky had suffered fatal wounds when a Russian military field hospital in Aleppo’s al-Furqan neighborhood was shelled on Monday.
A Russian military doctor and a nurse reportedly were killed in the same attack.
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WNU Editor: Russian President Putin rarely confirms the death of a soldier in a war-zone .... so this is why it is news. I also suspect that he will not be the last high ranking Russian soldier to be killed as the Syrian war grinds on.
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WNU,
I haven't been following Aleppo as closely as I should, but I would think that by now Putin would have considered using non russian troops (say out of some of the old SSR's) by now.
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