Anger In Russia Over Scores Of Russian Soldiers killed In Ukraine HIMARS Strike

Ukrainian servicemen prepare cannon shells before firing them towards positions of Russian troops in Donetsk region © Thomson Reuters  

Reuters: Anger in Russia as scores of troops killed in one of Ukraine war's deadliest strikes 

KYIV (Reuters) -Russia acknowledged on Monday that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war's deadliest strikes, drawing demands from Russian nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump. 

Russia's defence ministry said 63 soldiers had died in the fiery blast which destroyed a temporary barracks in a former vocational college in Makiivka, twin city of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. 

It said the accommodation had been hit by four rockets fired from U.S.-made HIMARS launchers, claiming two rockets had been shot down. 

Kyiv said the Russian death toll was in the hundreds, though pro-Russian officials called this an exaggeration. 

 Russian military bloggers said the huge destruction was a result of storing ammunition in the same building as a barracks, despite commanders knowing it was within range of Ukrainian rockets.  

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 WNU Editor: Reuters is only getting part of the above story correct. Russian mil-bloggers are demanding that commanders be punished for placing their soldiers in harms way. But the real anger and calls for revenge, from what I see on Russian social media, is directed at the Ukraine government and its military. For the propagandists in the Kremlin who are responsible for maintaining Russian public support for this war, their job has just gotten easier.

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