The Russian Protection Ministry claimed it executed a “retaliation” rocket assault Sunday that killed 600 Ukrainian troops housed in Kramatorsk in the hotly contested Donetsk region of jap Ukraine.
The Ukraine navy experienced no speedy remark on the claim.
“As a final result of a enormous missile attack on these details of momentary deployment of models of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, additional than 600 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed,” the ministry explained in a assertion.
The ministry stated the attack was in retaliation for a Ukraine attack previous week on buildings housing Russian troopers in Makiivka, about 60 miles south Kramatorsk. That strike killed 89 Russian servicemembers, the Kremlin explained Ukraine authorities approximated the death toll was significantly greater.
The assault came hours following the finish of a partly noticed, 36-hour unilateral stop-fireplace Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered to mark Russian Orthodox Christmas.
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Other developments:
►Ukrainian tennis player Ekaterina Volodko defeated Russian Valeria Savinykh in the finals of a tennis tournament in Thailand.
►Russia and Belarus will done joint tactical air power exercise routines from Jan. 16 to Feb. 1, Belarusian officials introduced. Belarus has been Russia closest ally given that the Ukraine invasion far more than 10 months in the past.
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Russia has been bolstering its fortifications in Zaporizhzhia, anxious that a major Ukrainian breakthrough in the southeastern region would seriously obstacle the viability of Russia’s ‘land bridge’ Russia and Crimea, the British Protection Ministry suggests. The ministry, in its most current evaluation of the war, also says the Russians are involved that Ukrainian accomplishment in the Luhansk region would further more undermine the Kremlin’s professed war aim of ‘liberating’ the Donbas.
“Selecting which of these threats to prioritize countering is probable 1 of the central dilemmas for Russian operational planner,” the evaluation suggests.
Contributing: The Involved Push
