Putin Regrets Lack of Reaction to Russian Hospital Attack in Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he regretted a lack of reaction from international human rights defenders to the recent attack on a Russian hospital in Syria.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said December 5 militants of the so-called Syrian opposition attacked a Russian mobile military hospital in Aleppo, killing two Russian military medics and wounding one. Local residents also sustained wounds.

"The voice of human rights defenders was virtually not heard at all in this connection," Putin said.

He said the Russian military medics, killed in Syria, were fulfilling exclusively humanitarian duties.