Shortly after his death, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said, "The death of the Russian commander is the price, the bloody price, for two-faced American policy in Syria".[30][31][32] At the same time, elsewhere in Syria, Russian air strikes killed at least 37 civilians, including 12 children, in several locations and villages in the district of Jisr al-Shughur in northwestern Idlib province.[33]