The Russian defense ministry said 63 troops were killed in the strikes by the U.S.-supplied weapons.
Forensic evidence is reportedly being examined to help identify the remains of Russian troops killed in a Ukrainian attack.
On New Year's Eve, Kyiv fired four rockets with high-explosive warheads that destroyed a barracks in a vocational college in the city of Makiivka, in the Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Russia's defense ministry said the strikes were from six rockets from a U.S.-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and that its air defenses had shot down two of the missiles.
"All necessary assistance and support will be provided to the relatives and friends of the fallen servicemen," the statement added. A war memorial in Samara, Russia, on January 3, 2023, marks the deaths of over 60 Russian troops who Moscow said were killed in a Ukrainian strike on Russian-controlled territory in Donetsk on New Year's Eve. Most of the dead soldiers were reportedly mobilized from the Samara region.Russian officials rarely officially acknowledge losses in the war in Ukraine, but the statement on Telegram followed details of the incident being publicized by Russian military bloggers.
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