George Ourfalian, AFP | A Russian soldier inspects the damage at a field hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo that was reportedly destroyed by rebel shelling on December 5, 2016

A Russian army medic was killed Monday and two others seriously injured in rebel shelling of a field hospital in Syria's Aleppo, Russia's defence ministry said, blaming Western nations who support rebel fighters. Two Russian medics were killed and another seriously injured after around a dozen of shells hit the facility. Civilians attending appointments were also wounded in the attack. The Russian Defense Ministry ministry said that it attributes blame for the hospital shelling to “terrorists and their patrons in the US, the UK and France.”

The Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov accused the United States of both providing the rebels with the coordinates of the Russian hospital as well as providing the weapons with which it was hit:

“The blood of our soldiers is on the hands of their hirer of the murder.
Two Russian army medics are killed after around a dozen shells hit a mobile hospital in Aleppo.