Town hit by seven missile strikes, 31 air strikes and 73 attacks from salvo rocket launchers in the past day, official claims
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Picture: UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/REUTERS
“And even though most of the town has been destroyed by Russian strikes, our soldiers are repelling constant Russian attempts to advance.” “Strikes on Kramatorsk and other cities in Donbas — on civilian targets and at the very time when Moscow was reporting a supposed 'silence' for its army.”On Sunday, Russia said a missile attack on Kramatorsk, northwest of Bakhmut, had killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers, but a Reuters reporter at the scene found no obvious signs of casualties.
Serhiy Cherevatyi, a Ukrainian military spokesperson for the eastern region, described the claim of mass casualties as an attempt by the Russian defence ministry to show it had responded forcefully to Ukraine's recent strikes on Russian soldiers. Hawkish voices have sought an escalation of the war effort after setbacks such as loss of captured territory and high rates of death and injury.Some prominent Russian military bloggers have criticised the Russian defence ministry claims.
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