Moscow says Ukrainian rocket strike kills 63 Russian troops
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian forces fired rockets at a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian soldiers were stationed, killing 63 of them, Russia’s defense ministry said Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the Ukraine war began more than 10 months ago.
The Ukrainian military has not directly confirmed the strike, but seemed to acknowledge what appeared to be the same attack that Russian authorities reported. The barrage was the latest in a series of relentless year-end attacks, including one that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve. In the outlying Kyiv region a “critical infrastructure object” and residential buildings were hit, Gov. Oleksiy Kuleba said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of “energy terrorism” as the aerial bombardments have left many people without heat amid freezing temperatures. Ukrainian officials say Moscow is “weaponizing winter” in its effort to demoralize the Ukrainian resistance.
Putin insists he had no choice but to send troops into Ukraine because it threatened Russia’s security – an assertion condemned by the West, which says Moscow bears full responsibility for the Ukraine war.Drones, missiles and artillery shells launched by Russian forces also struck areas across Ukraine.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a missile was also destroyed, according to Reznichenko. He said that energy infrastructure in the region was being targeted.
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