The Russian army assures this Sunday January 8 to have carried out strikes on military barracks in Kramatorsk, in the east of Ukraine, and inflicted heavy losses on its adversary in “retaliations” the Ukrainian bombardment on Makiïvka, which had killed at least 89 Russian soldiers at New Year’s (according to the Russian report, kyiv having for its part estimated the Russian losses at several hundred soldiers killed).
“In response to the kyiv regime’s criminal strike in the first minutes of January 2023 (…), Russian forces carried out a retaliatory operation”, announced the Russian Ministry of Defense in its daily report, specifying that it had struck two barracks. The precise date of this strike was not indicated by the ministry.
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Local Ukrainian authorities reported that Kramatorsk was hit by seven rockets overnight. Two other rockets targeted the nearby town of Kostiantynivka. On Saturday, AFP journalists present in Kramatorsk heard at least four explosions before midnight.
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600 Ukrainian soldiers killed?
More than 600 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in this massive strike, says the Russian Defense Ministry, according to Reuters. The news agency was not immediately able to verify the Russian Defense Ministry’s claims.
The Russian army presented this strike as revenge for the one carried out in Makiivka, in pro-Russian separatist territory in eastern Ukraine, a few minutes after the start of the new year.
The Ukrainian army had targeted a temporary deployment point for Russian soldiers there, causing the death of at least 89 soldiers, according to the report given by Moscow.
