Russia Acknowledges That Scores Of Its Troops Were Killed By A Ukrainian HIMARS Attack
* As 2022 ended, Ukrainian missiles struck a school-turned-barracks in Makiivka
* Ukrainian officials claimed as many as 400 Russian soldiers were killed in attack
* The strike happened as Putin was delivering his annual New Year address on TV
Russia has acknowledged that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war's deadliest single strikes, when Kyiv's forces struck a building housing troops at the exact moment Vladimir Putin was delivering his televised New Year address.
In a rare admission, Russia's defence ministry said 63 soldiers had died in the fiery blast which destroyed the temporary barracks in a former vocational college in Makiivka, twin city of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk.
It said the accommodation had been hit by four rockets fired from U.S.-made HIMARS launchers, claiming two rockets had been shot down.
The Russian disaster has drawn demands from nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump.
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WNU Editor: This attack shows how devastating precision munitions and systems can be when they are used. In this particular case, even though Ukraine only has a few HIMARS systems and a limited number of missiles, they were successful in inflicting heavy casualties. But what the Western mainstream media is not talking about, and this successful strike should be put into context, is that Russia has the same type of systems that Ukraine has, but in numbers that far dwarf what Ukraine has deployed and is using.
One can only imagine the casualty numbers that are being impacted on the Ukrainian side, but of course the Western media is not reporting on that.
Russia Acknowledges That Scores Of Its Troops Were Killed By A Ukrainian HIMARS Attack
Ukraine claims hundreds of Russians killed by missile attack -- BBC
Moscow says Ukrainian rocket strike kills 63 Russian troops -- AP
Russia says 63 soldiers killed by Ukrainian strike in Donetsk region -- Reuters
Ukraine Claims Responsibility For Attack On Russian Barracks That Killed Scores Of Soldiers -- RFE
Anger in Russia as scores of troops killed in one of war's deadliest strikes -- Reuters
63 Russian Soldiers Killed in Ukrainian Missile Strike on Makiivka — Defense Ministry -- Moscow Times
Dozens dead in Ukrainian strike on Russian troops – Moscow -- RT
Ukrainian rocket strike near Makeyevka in DPR kills 63 Russian servicemen – top brass -- TASS
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