Russia's defence ministry says a strike on buildings in Kramatorsk on Sunday was revenge for a deadly Ukrainian attack last week on a Russian barracks in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
abc.net.au/news/russia-ukrainian-troops-revenge-attack-600-dead/101836214Russia's defence ministry has claimed it killed more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen in a massive rocket strike on two buildings in eastern Ukraine temporarily housing Ukrainian forces.The Kremlin says the attack was revenge for a Ukrainian missile attack last week that killed dozens of Russian servicemen
Russia's defence ministry said it used what it called reliable intelligence to target the Ukrainian troops Ukraine has not commented, but a local mayor in the town targeted said nobody had been killed during strikes in the cityHowever, the mayor of Kramatorsk — the eastern Ukrainian town Russia said it had targeted — said earlier on Sunday on Facebook that nobody had been killed in an attack on various buildings in the city.
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