The Ukrainian military admitted on Monday to carrying out the attack that killed 63 Russian soldiers in Makiivka in eastern Ukraine, according to the Moscow report, claiming to have hit as many as 10 vehicles.
“On December 31, up to 10 units of enemy military equipment of various types were destroyed or damaged” in Makiivka, Donetsk region, the General Staff of Ukraine posted on Facebook, stating that the number of losses of Russian manpower was being assessed. .
A rare statement for Russia
Russia acknowledged on Monday the death of 63 of its soldiers in Ukraine, killed in an attack on separatist territory in the east of the country, the largest losses in a single attack admitted by Moscow since the start of the invasion.
The army has only rarely given an assessment of its offensive or reported its losses. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, 63 soldiers were killed in the explosion of “four missiles” fired by HIMARS systems, a weapon supplied by the United States to Ukrainian forces.
According to the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, who did not specify the date of the attack, these missiles hit “a temporary deployment center” of the Russian army in Makivka, a city under Russian occupation located east of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk. The ministry also claimed to have shot down two of the six missiles fired at this target in Makiivka.
new year strikes
The announcement of this strike comes after a New Year marked by the Russian bombardments on Kyiv and other cities on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, which left five dead and fifty injured. In the early hours of Monday, the strikes caused power outages in Kyiv.
“The Russians launched several waves of Iranian-made Shahed drones,” said Oleksiy Kouleba, head of the Kyiv region’s military administration, adding that the strikes were directed against “critical infrastructure.”
According to the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, a 19-year-old boy was injured by glass fragments. Ukrainian air defense claimed to have shot down 41 drones and one Russian missile.
Source: BFM TV
