Image source, Telegram: Horevica / ZSU StratCom Image caption, Footage, obviously from the scene of the attack, was published by the Ukrainian military By Sam Hancock & Elsa Maishman BBC News Ukraine has verified it brought out a strike in the inhabited area of Donetsk, which it earlier declared eliminated 400 Russian soldiers. Russian authorities objectedto the figure, stating just 63 soldiers were eliminated. Neither claim hasactually been confirmed, and gainaccessto to the website is limited. The attack on New Year’s Day hit a structure in the city of Makiivka, where Russian forces were stationed. It is very unusual for Moscow to validate any battleground casualties. But this was such a lethal attack, states the BBC’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, that staying quiet most mostlikely wasn’t an alternative. It is the greatest number of deaths acknowledged by Moscow in a single event because the war started 10 months earlier. In a declaration on Monday, Russia’s defence ministry stated Ukrainian forces fired 6 rockets utilizing the US-made Himars rocket system at a structure realestate Russian soldiers. Two of them were shot down, it included. A number of Russian analysts and blogwriters acknowledged the attack – however stated the numbers were lower than declared by Ukraine. But Igor Girkin, a pro-Russian analyst, stated hundreds hadactually been eliminated and injured, although the precise number was still unidentified since o
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