There is still no comment from Ukraine on the attack or the death toll. (Archive)
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday it had killed more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen in a massive rocket attack on two buildings in eastern Ukraine temporarily housing Ukrainian forces.
Reuters could not immediately verify the Defense Ministry’s claim. There was no immediate comment on the Russian claim to Ukraine, although the mayor of Kramatorsk, the eastern Ukrainian city that Russia said it had attacked, said earlier on Sunday on Facebook that no one had been killed in an attack on several buildings in the city. .
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack on buildings in Kramatorsk was revenge for a deadly attack by Ukraine earlier this year on a Russian headquarters in Makiivka, in part of the Donetsk region controlled by Moscow forces. in which at least 89 soldiers died.
The ministry said in a statement that it had used what it called reliable intelligence to attack Ukrainian troops. He said that more than 700 Ukrainian soldiers had been housed in one shelter and more than 600 in another.
“As a result of a massive missile attack on these temporary deployment points of Ukrainian army units, more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed,” the Defense Ministry said.
However, Reuters reporters visited the two university dormitories that the Russian Defense Ministry said had temporarily housed the Ukrainian military near the front line of the war at the time of the overnight attack. None appeared to have been hit directly by missiles or seriously damaged. There were no obvious signs that the soldiers had been living there, no signs of bodies or traces of blood.
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