Ukraine has actually rejected 600 of its soldiers were eliminated in an air campaign– buffooning the boast as ‘Russian propaganda’.
Kremlin spokesperson Igor Konashenkov stated the rocket attack on a barracks was a ‘retaliatory action’ after Ukraine eliminated a minimum of 89 Russian soldiers in their base at Makiivka, eastern Donetsk, on New Year’s Day.
It was among the most dangerous attacks on Vladimir Putin’s forces given that he introduced the war more than 10 months back.
‘Over the past day, Russian intelligence detected and reliably confirmed through various independent channels some temporary bases of Ukrainian servicemen in Kramatorsk,’ Mr Konashenkov stated.
‘As a result of a massive rocket strike on these temporary bases of Ukrainian units, more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were killed.’
But Ukraine army spokesperson Serhiy Cherevaty firmly insisted: ‘This is another piece of Russian propaganda.’ Donetsk guv Pavlo Kyrylenko validated that Russian rocket attacks struck Kramatorsk however they harmed a school, a commercial system and an employees’ co-op factory.
News firm Ukrinform stated ‘according to preliminary information, nobody was injured during the shelling’.
Mr Kyrylenko likewise reported rocket strikes on Konstantynivka and Bakhmut, where a single person passed away, with 8 others injured in the area.
In neighbouring Kharkiv, guv Oleh Syniehubov stated the town of Merefa was struck throughout the night, eliminating a single person, while 2 other settlements in the area were shelled.
Russia’s president Putin participated in an orthodox Christmas service at Moscow’s Annunciation cathedral a day prior to a partly observed unilateral ceasefire throughout the celebrations concerned an end the other day.
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