YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. Russian Colonel Ruslan Galitsky has died of wounds in a shelling by Syria’s opposition militants in Aleppo’s west, the Russian Defense Ministry said, reports TASS.

“Colonel Ruslan Galitsky has died in hospital after being severely wounded. Russian military medics fought for his life for several days. The officer sustained injuries in an artillery bombardment by the militants of the so-called ‘opposition', when they shelled a residential area in the western part of Aleppo," the ministry saying as quoted by TASS.

The Ministry said Galitsky was conducting a mission in Syria as part of a group of Russian military advisers.