To dissuade Moscow from further provocations that endanger coalition forces, the West needs to demonstrate that it has other military and political options in Syria.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Nikolay Gorban, 36, died fighting somewhere in Ukraine on August 2 while leading elite Spetsnaz special forces soldiers, according to local media reports.