Russian officer, colonel killed in Syria Ruslan Galitsky. According to the official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the colonel died from wounds received as a result of the shelling of one of the western quarters of Aleppo by militants. The Russian officer was in the city as a military adviser accompanying the armies of the Syrian Arab Republic.
“Colonel Ruslan Galitsky died in the hospital as a result of a severe wound. Russian military doctors fought for his life for several days. The officer was injured during an artillery shelling by militants of the so-called "opposition" of one of the residential areas of the western part of Aleppo," the Russian defense ministry said.
Before he went to Syria, Colonel Galitsky served in Buryatia as the commander of the Fifth Guards Separate Tank Brigade. There he managed to prove himself well during the Selenga-2016 exercises. In February 2016, Ruslan Galitsky was awarded the badge "For Military Service". Now he is posthumously nominated for the highest state award.
According to the Buryat television and radio company "Arig Us", in Ulan-Ude, the colonel left a family. In the unit where the Russian officer served, a campaign is now underway to raise funds for his funeral. “This is how the strongest leave,” we can read in the comments of one of the residents of Buryatia in connection with this.
Colonel Galitsky is not the first Russian soldier to give his life on the fields of the Syrian civil war. Nevertheless, of course, his heroic death makes this conflict even more resonant and significant for Russian citizens. What has Russia already achieved in Syria? What else can be done? In all this Federal Agency news political scientist helped to understand Vladimir Jaralla.
“Of course, humanly one can only speak of deep regret over the death of an officer who died in the line of his military duty. Someone's family lost native person. Naturally, this is a tragedy that can only be sympathized with. Meanwhile, Galitsky died, following orders and helping the people of another country. Therefore, it should be noted that any military operation - including the military operation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria - has its own goals and the time period during which they must be completed, ”the political scientist cites his point of view.
Now, despite all the bitterness of the losses, we can say that most of the goals of the Syrian military campaign have been achieved. Most importantly, we can say that Russia has fulfilled its tasks on time.
“Thus, the military operation in Syria has already helped bring the situation in relations between Russia and the West out of the “Ukrainian impasse”. At the same time, she saved the government Bashar al-Assad. Thanks to her, Syria has avoided a terrible, but very real prospect - an inter-religious, inter-confessional massacre. The forces of all those who, after their “Syrian success”, planned to extend their efforts to destabilize the international situation to other countries, have been undermined.
Only one task remains unfulfilled - the establishment of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United States on the Syrian issue. It may seem that it is impossible. But after winning Trump in the US elections, there was a real hope that the US and Russian military would still be able to combine their efforts to suppress this "uprising" of Islamic fundamentalists. Potentially, such cooperation could allow both our countries to withdraw their military contingents from the Middle East region. When this task is completed, then it will be possible to say that the Syrian operation of Russia has come to an end - that Russian soldiers can finally return home to their families," sums up Vladimir Jaralla.
During the operation to liberate eastern Aleppo, Colonel Ruslan Galitsky died. The Ministry of Defense released information that the officer died from wounds received as a result of shelling from residential areas of Aleppo occupied by terrorist groups. The military department reports that a Russian officer helped one of the formations of the Syrian army in the training of military personnel and the development military equipment. But I have reason to believe that the Ministry of Defense is keeping something back, and Colonel Galitsky was faced with a much more serious task.
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The fact is that I was personally acquainted with Ruslan Viktorovich Galitsky. He himself was not a very talkative person, but from our mutual acquaintances I knew that he was born and raised in Western Ukraine, in 1990 he came from Lvov to Moscow and entered the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. Then he graduated from the Frunze Academy. In 2010, from a position with an unpronounceable title - "Head of the Department of the Operations Department of the Operational Directorate of the Headquarters of the Moscow Military District", he entered the Academy General Staff, which he brilliantly graduated in 2012.
According to our sources in the Russian Defense Ministry, in Syria, Colonel Galitsky was engaged in operational planning and coordination of interaction between the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, based at the Khmeimim airbase, parts of the Syrian government army and "other units" involved in the liquidation of the terrorist international. It was Colonel Galitsky who was one of those who planned the operation to liberate Palmyra and the ongoing operation to eliminate terrorist groups in the eastern part of Aleppo.
As for Aleppo, a quantitative and qualitative superiority of forces was ensured at the points of breaking through the line of defense of the militants; dozens of militant leaders. Among them are the commander of the so-called "Army of Aleppo" Abdel Rahman Nur, the leader of the Aleppo branch of the banned in Russia "Harakat Ahrar al-Sham" - Abu al-Harith, one of the field commanders of the "Free Syrian Army" - Abdal Hamid, leaders of banned formations "Jabhat Shamiya" - Said Shahabi and Hasem al-Musa, and the emir of the Harakat Nureddin al-Zinki group - Omar Muhammad ... And these are only those terrorists whose elimination was confirmed by intercepts of telephone and radio communications.
It took a little more than a day after the start of the offensive to cut through the group of militants surrounded in the eastern part of Aleppo and begin the systematic liberation of urban areas.
The Syrian press claims that the main striking force smashing terrorist groups in Aleppo is the Syrian special forces "Desert Tigers". However, I know from several sources that although there are Syrians in the “Syrian special forces “Desert Tigers”, the main task of this structure is to provide a video image for journalists in order to hide the participation in hostilities of well-trained combat units that are in the Russian and foreign press called "PMC Wagner" (a private military company commanded by a retired GRU officer with the call sign "Wagner"). A radical change in the course of the operation to liberate the eastern part of the city was made precisely by the transfer to Aleppo of more than a thousand Chevekashniks, most of whom took part in the liberation of Palmyra.
For the third time this week, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation had to report the death of a Russian serviceman in Syria. According to the military department, colonel of the Russian Armed Forces Ruslan Galitsky tragically died last Tuesday.
IN Syrian city Aleppo, which currently Syrian government troops are freed from militants, the Russian colonel worked as a military adviser. The Ministry of Defense clarified that Galitsky was seriously wounded during the shelling of the so-called "opposition" by militants ( Western countries stubbornly classify militants as oppositionists) of a residential area in the western part of Aleppo. Russian military doctors fought for the life of the officer for several days, but they failed to save him. The deceased left behind a wife and three children.
"Colonel Ruslan Galitsky was posthumously presented by the command for a high state award," the military department said in a statement.
Colonel Galitsky helped the Syrian military liberate areas of the city of Aleppo occupied by terrorists
The Kremlin confirmed that in the near future the relevant submission will be signed by the head of state.
The last position of Colonel Galitsky before a business trip to Syria was the commander of the 5th Guards Separate Tank Brigade stationed in Buryatia. Prior to that, he served in the Moscow Military District.
Even earlier, Colonel Galitsky headed the operational department of a military unit in the Southern Military District.
On the Internet, in social networks, you can find the profile of Colonel Galitsky. According to information from him, in the 90s, the young officer moved to the capital of Russia from the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk. In Moscow, he first graduated from the MVOKU them. Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR military school better known as the "Kremlin", the main forge of cadres of combat commanders. Then Galitsky graduated from the Frunze Academy, and then the General Staff Academy with a gold medal. According to our information, the officer's family lived permanently in Moscow, since his wife is a Muscovite.
In Aleppo, we recall, he arrived as a military adviser. The colonel helped the Syrian military liberate areas of the city of Aleppo captured by terrorists. "The officer assisted the command staff of one of the formations of the Syrian army in organizing the training of units and subunits, as well as mastering military equipment," the press service of the military department specified.
Earlier this year, a Russian military adviser also died in Syria. On February 1, Islamic State terrorists (activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) fired at a military garrison where one of the units of the Syrian army is stationed. A Russian military adviser was mortally wounded. His name was not reported, but the Ministry of Defense stated that he was nominated for a state award.
After two nurses and a military adviser were killed in Aleppo, the total number of military personnel killed in Syria has reached 23. The press service of the Russian military department informed about each dead in detail earlier.
Meanwhile
Over the past day, Syrian government forces have liberated another 15 neighborhoods in the eastern part of Aleppo from militants, and also occupied the dominant height of Sheikh Lufti. According to the Russian Peacekeeping Center in Khmeimim, Assad's army already controls 50 blocks or 70 percent of the territory of the city, where terrorist groups and the armed groups of the so-called moderate opposition that joined them previously controlled.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that 1,224 civilians left the neighborhoods controlled by the militants for the safe areas of Aleppo yesterday. In addition, 66 militants laid down their arms and went to the western regions of Aleppo. By decision of the Syrian president, all of them were amnestied.
Employees Russian Center reconciliation provide civilian population cities provide hot meals, give people warm clothes and basic necessities.
Meanwhile, experts are analyzing options for how the situation in Syria may change after the recent decision of the US House of Representatives to supply man-portable air defense systems to the formations of the so-called moderate opposition. Of course, it is not yet a fact that American MANPADS will definitely be in their hands. However, the very likelihood of militants having portable anti-aircraft guns cannot but be alarming.
Franz Klintsevich, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, believes that this will create serious risks for Assad's military aviation. In an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, the senator said that MANPADS pose no danger to Russian aircraft operating in Syria, "because neither the Su-24, nor the Su-35, nor even the planes from the Admiral Kuznetsov, they strike from a height of at least 6 km. That is, from an echelon inaccessible to portable anti-aircraft systems.
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“He was called up in 1990 from Lviv”
Brigade commander Ruslan Galitsky, who died during the shelling in Aleppo, was a closed man: no pages in social networks, of course - the service obliges. More full information"MK in Buryatia" managed to get from a classmate of the deceased officer. Actually, it was he who announced on his page on the social network on December 5 that Ruslan Galitsky was 5 days short of a new rank.
“My friend, classmate Ruslan Galitsky died yesterday. We studied in the same platoon, one department,” shared a classmate and head of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the veteran organization “Officers of Russia” Vladimir Kuzmin.
Ruslan was the best of the best.
He was called up in 1990 from Lvov and loved Ukraine very much. “He always went to the VAF, even for mass sports work, in a tracksuit with the inscription “Ukraine”. And he was, according to a friend, a true patriot of the common homeland - the USSR.
After graduating from a military school (the so-called "Kremlin") he entered the Academy of the General Staff. Frunze and graduated with a gold medal. He served in the Moscow Military District, before that he led the operational management of a military unit in the Southern Military District. Governor Rostov region awarded Galitsky with the badge "For military service" in February 2016. Later, he was transferred to the 5th Separate Guards Tank Tatsinsky Red Banner Order of Suvorov II Degree Brigade. The eminent unit of the Eastern Military District, which is deployed at the Divisional station in the city of Ulan-Ude, celebrated its 98th anniversary on December 1.
In early December, there were reports that a number of Buryat tankers were sent as military advisers to Syria, where the fighting for Aleppo is currently going on, but many colleagues did not know what kind of business trip Galitsky went on. We learned about it from the news.
A classmate was the first to report that on December 12, 2016, Galitsky was to receive the rank of major general. Now he is posthumously presented to the title of Hero Russian Federation. “Aleppo will be ours, Rus! And your bust will stand there, Brother. Then, maybe, at a school in Western Ukraine, when they come to their senses, ”Kuzmin notes.
On December 7, information about the death of a member of a group of military advisers in Syria was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense: Ruslan died in the hospital as a result of a severe wound. Russian military doctors fought for his life for several days. The officer was wounded during an artillery shelling of one of the residential areas in the western part of Aleppo. Now Ruslan Galitsky's colleagues are collecting financial assistance for his family.
Read The Ministry of Defense told what the deceased Colonel Galitsky was doing in Syria
G Alitsky Kuzma Nikitovich - Commander of the 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front, Colonel General.
Born on October 12 (24), 1897 in the city of Taganrog of the Don Cossack Region, now part of the Rostov Region. From a working class family. Russian. He graduated from the vocational school in Taganrog. He worked as a fitter's apprentice and fitter in a mechanical workshop, as an assistant to the machinist of the Taganrog railway depot.
In April 1917 he was drafted into the Russian army. Served in the 274th reserve infantry regiment (Taganrog), non-commissioned officer. In October 1917 he was demobilized. He worked again at the depot. During the period of the German-Austrian occupation, he participated in a strike, after which he fled to the territory occupied by the Red Army.
In the Red Army since August 1918. Participant civil war. From August 1918 - commanded a platoon, a company of the 9th Soviet Ukrainian regiment of the 2nd insurgent Soviet division. From June 1919 - battalion commander of the 1st shock regiment of the 7th Zadneprovskaya Ukrainian rifle division Southern Front. In September 1919 he was seriously wounded. Since March 1920 - commander of the battalion, head of the political department of the section of the railway CHON, head of the political department of the section railway Taganrog. From July 1920 to June 1921 - battalion commander of the 397th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division on the Southwestern Front. Fought against the army of A.I. Denikin and Polish troops, against the troops of P.N. Wrangel and political banditry in Ukraine. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1918.
In 1922 he graduated from the Comintern Higher Tactical Shooting School. From August 1922 to August 1924 he commanded a battalion, then was assistant commander of the 67th Infantry Regiment in the 23rd Infantry Division of the Kharkov Military District.
In 1927 he graduated military academy Red Army named after M.V. Frunze. After graduating from the academy K.N. Galitsky from August 1927 - Chief of Staff of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division, from August 1928 - Head of the Scientific and Editorial Department of the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M. V. Frunze, from May 1930 - adjunct in this academy. From November 1931 - commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment in the Moscow Proletarian Infantry Division. From January - May 1934 - Deputy Head of the Combat Training Department of the Moscow Military District. Since May 1934 - assistant commander of the 3rd Crimean Rifle Division of the Kharkov Military District. In September - November 1937 - Chief of Staff of the Kharkov Military District. From November 1937 - commander of the 90th Infantry Division in the Leningrad Military District.
In July 1938, he was arrested by the NKVD of the USSR, dismissed from the Red Army and was under investigation. He did not admit guilt, did not slander any of his colleagues. In May 1939, he was released due to the termination of the criminal case and reinstated in the Red Army, but did not receive a new appointment and was at the disposal of the Command and Control Department. commanding staff Red Army. In December 1939 he was sent to the front of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 and on December 23, 1939 he was appointed commander of the 24th Samara-Ulyanovsk Iron twice Red Banner Rifle Division, replacing its killed commander P.E. Veshchev.
After the war with the division, he was transferred to the Western Special Military District, to Belarus.
In the battles of the Great Patriotic War Major General Galitsky K.N. - since June 1941. He commanded the 24th Infantry Division as part of the 13th Army of the Western Front, a participant in the border defensive battle. From June 25 to June 29, the division stubbornly defended in the Minsk fortified area, then the surviving units fought over 500 kilometers surrounded by battles and on July 14 came out to their own. In connection with the loss of the Battle Banner, the division was disbanded (the banner was found on the battlefield on a killed officer by local residents, saved by them and returned in 1944 Soviet command). The order to remove Galitsky from the post of commander was dated only December 27, 1941, but since July 1941 he was officially in other positions.
From July 19, 1941 - commander of the 67th Rifle Corps of the 21st Army of the Central Front, fought in the Battle of Smolensk and was seriously wounded in the battle on August 13, 1941. He was evacuated to a hospital in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), after being cured in January 1942, he was appointed deputy commander of the 1st shock army on the Western and Northwestern fronts, participated in the Rzhev-Vyazemskaya and in the first Demyansk operations. But already in February 1942 he was seriously wounded for the second time and was again treated in the same hospital in Sverdlovsk.
In August 1942 he was appointed commander of the 1st Reserve Army (Tambov). Since September 18, 1942 Galitsky K.N. - Commander of the 3rd shock army on the Kalinin and North-Western fronts. At the head of this army, he distinguished himself in Velikolukskaya and Nevelsk operations.
From November 26, 1943 until the end of the war - commander of the 11th guards army on the 2nd Baltic and 3rd Belorussian fronts. Participated in the Gorodok, Belarusian strategic, Gumbinnen-Goldap, East Prussian and Zemland operations.
Particularly distinguished himself in the operation to defeat Nazi German troops in East Prussia (1945), when his army broke through the most powerful defensive line at Ragnit - Gumbinnen, surrounded a large enemy grouping in the Insterburg region and stormed this city, then overcame the rear fortified area "Ilmenhorst" and deeply engulfed Königsberg from the south. In April 1945, the 11th Guards Army became famous during the assault on Königsberg, and then during the assault on the large naval base of Pillau. IN
Z and the skillful command of the army during the assault on Koenigsberg and the personal courage and heroism shown at the same time by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1945 to Colonel General Galitsky Kuzma Nikitovich awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
After the war, K.N. Galitsky commanded the troops of the Special Military District on the territory of the former East Prussia (1945-1946), the 11th Guards Army of the Baltic Military District (March-October 1946), the troops of the Carpathian (October 1946 - November 1951) and Odessa (November 1951 - 1954) military districts. From May to August 1954 - commander of the troops of the Moscow Air Defense District. Then he was at the disposal of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
From April 1955 to January 1958, Army General K.N. Galitsky was commander of the Northern Group of Forces in Poland, and then in January 1958 - June 1961 - commander of the Transcaucasian Military District. Since June 1961 - at the disposal of the Minister of Defense of the USSR.
Since January 1962 - retired due to illness. Lived in the hero city of Moscow. He did a lot of social work, was chairman of the military scientific society under Central house Soviet army. He died on March 14, 1973. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (plot 7).
He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd-5th convocations (1946-1962).
Military ranks:
colonel (1936)
brigade commander (20.02.1938),
major general (06/04/1940),
lieutenant general (01/30/1943),
colonel general (06/28/1944),
army general (03/11/1955).He was awarded four Orders of Lenin (02/21/1945, 04/19/1945, ...), four Orders of the Red Banner (03/21/1940, 04/12/1942, 11/3/1944, ...), Orders of Suvorov 1st degree (10/11/1943 ), Kutuzov 1st degree (02/20/1943), Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st degree (07/04/1944), Red Star, medals, foreign award - Polish order.
Bust of K.N. Galitsky installed in Kaliningrad. Streets in the cities of Kaliningrad and Taganrog are named after him.
Compositions:
In battles for East Prussia. Notes of the Commander of the 11th Guards Army. M., 1970;
Years of severe trials. 1941-1944. Commander's Notes. M., 1973.The biography was supplemented by Anton Bocharov (Koltsovo village, Novosibirsk Region).
