Makiivka attack kills scores of recently mobilised Russian troops

A New Year’s Day attack on a complex in the Russian-controlled city of Makiivka killed scores of recently mobilised troops sent by Moscow, according to reports on both sides, in what could be one of the deadliest know incidents involving Russian conscripts so far, Qazet.az reports.

Without claiming the strike, Ukraine’s military command announced up to 400 Russian soldiers were killed in the incident in Makiivka, a city in the Moscow-controlled parts of the Donetsk region.

Pro-Russian authorities late on Sunday acknowledged that there were casualties, but did not comment on the Ukrainian figures.

Daniil Bezsonov, a senior Moscow proxy official in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, said a Ukrainian missile struck a vocational school in Makiivka that housed soldiers two minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day.

“A massive blow was dealt to the vocational school from American MLRS Himars,” Bezsonov wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app, referring to US-provided missiles.

“There were dead and wounded, the exact number is still unknown,” Bezsonov added.