There isn’t any remark but from Ukraine on the assault or the variety of useless. (File)

Russia’s defence ministry mentioned on Sunday it had killed greater than 600 Ukrainian servicemen in a large rocket strike on two buildings in jap Ukraine quickly housing Ukrainian forces.

Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm the defence ministry’s assertion. There was no rapid touch upon the Russian declare from Ukraine, although the mayor of Kramatorsk, the jap Ukrainian city Russia mentioned it had focused, mentioned earlier on Sunday on Facebook that no person had been killed in an assault on numerous buildings within the metropolis.

Russia’s defence ministry mentioned the strike on the buildings in Kramatorsk was revenge for a lethal Ukrainian assault earlier this yr on a Russian barracks in Makiivka in a part of the Donetsk area managed by Moscow’s forces during which at the least 89 servicemen had been killed.

The ministry mentioned in an announcement that it had used what it referred to as dependable intelligence to focus on the Ukrainian troops. It mentioned greater than 700 Ukrainian troops had been housed in a single hostel and greater than 600 in one other.

“As a result of a massive missile strike on these temporary deployment points of Ukrainian army units, more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed,” the defence ministry mentioned.

However, Reuters reporters visited the 2 school dormitories Russia’s defence ministry mentioned had been quickly housing Ukrainian servicemen near the entrance line of the battle on the time of the in a single day strike. Neither appeared to have been straight hit by missiles or severely broken. There had been no apparent indicators that troopers had been residing there and no signal of our bodies or traces of blood.

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