Ukrainian Missile Strikes Eliminate 63 Russian Soldiers
Scores of Russian soldiers were killed when Ukrainian missiles struck a building in the occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine on New Year’s Day, according to Russian authorities.
“The Kiev regime struck with six rockets of the U.S.-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system at the point of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Russian armed forces in the area of the settlement of Makeyevka,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said that 63 service members died in the attack, although details remained sketchy.
Igor Strelkov, a Russian military blogger and former defense minister for the breakaway region, said on Telegram the building was almost completely destroyed after detonation of ammunition stored in the same building.
“Almost all the military equipment standing next to the building without the slightest sign of camouflage was also destroyed,” he wrote. “Many people are listed as missing under the rubble.”
Strelkov also noted that Russian officers “prefer to stay further from the location of the trusted troops – out of the range of the enemy’s missiles.”
