Scores of Russian troops stationed next to an ammunitions dump have been killed in a deadly Ukraine missile strike.
Russia says 63 of its servicemen were killed in the strike on Makiivka, but Ukraine says the death toll is in the hundreds.
It said the accommodation had been hit by four rockets fired from US-made HIMARS launchers, claiming two rockets had been shot down. Kyiv said the Russian death toll was in the hundreds, though pro-Russian officials called this an exaggeration.Source:Russian military bloggers, many with hundreds of thousands of followers, said the huge destruction was a result of storing ammunition in the same building as a barracks, despite commanders knowing it was within range of Ukrainian rockets.
Unverified footage posted online of the aftermath of the Makiivka strike on the Russian barracks showed a huge building reduced to smoking rubble. "What happened in Makiivka is horrible," wrote Archangel Spetznaz Z, another Russian military blogger with more than 700,000 followers on Telegram. Kyiv said the new tactic was a sign of Russia's desperation as Ukraine's ability to defend its air space had improved.
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