Moscow mentioned its ‘retaliatory strike’ killed greater than 600 troopers however Kyiv mentioned its armed forces weren't affected.
Russia has claimed its army carried out a lethal “retaliatory strike” on barracks utilized by Ukrainian troopers within the Donbas area as Ukraine denied there have been any casualties within the assault.
The Russian defence ministry mentioned missiles hit two non permanent bases housing 1,300 Ukrainian troops in Kramatorsk, within the japanese Donetsk area. It mentioned “greater than 600 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed” on account of what they referred to as a “retaliatory strike” on Ukrainian troopers.
Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov mentioned the strike was performed in retaliation after Ukraine killed dozens Russian troops in an assault on Makiivka final week.
Ukrainian officers denied there have been any casualties within the Russian assault on Kramatorsk.
Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s forces within the east, mentioned that Russian strikes on Kramatorsk broken solely civilian infrastructure.
“The armed forces of Ukraine weren’t affected,” he added.
The top of the Donetsk regional administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, mentioned earlier on Sunday that Russians launched seven rocket assaults on Kramatorsk, including that “an academic establishment, an industrial facility and a storage cooperative” had been broken and that there have been no casualties.
Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko mentioned two faculty buildings and eight residence homes have been broken.
Reporters from the Reuters information company visited the 2 faculty dormitories that Russia’s defence ministry mentioned had been quickly housing Ukrainian servicemen near the entrance line of the struggle on the time of the in a single day strike.
Neither appeared to have been instantly hit by missiles or significantly broken, they mentioned. There have been no apparent indicators that troopers had been dwelling there and no signal of our bodies or traces of blood.
Assault in Makiivka
Within the early hours of January 1, Ukrainian forces launched rockets at a facility the place Russian troopers have been stationed in Makiivka, Donetsk.
A minimum of 89 Russian troopers have been killed in one of many deadliest assaults on Moscow’s forces because the struggle began on February 24, 2022.
Additionally on Sunday, the Ukrainian army claimed to have hit a residential corridor of a medical college in Rubizhne, a city within the Russian-occupied japanese Luhansk area, killing 14 Russian troopers housed there. The variety of wounded was unknown, it mentioned.
Elsewhere within the east, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko mentioned one particular person was killed in strikes on Bakhmut, and eight others have been wounded.
Within the northeastern Kharkiv area, the city of Merefa was hit in the course of the evening, killing one particular person and two different settlements within the area have been shelled, Governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned.
The developments got here after Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered a 36-hour ceasefire to mark Christmas for Orthodox Christians, who have fun the vacation on January 7. The ceasefire ended at 11pm in Kyiv (21:00 GMT) on Saturday.
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