The Russian Ministry of Defense blamed and said today (Wednesday) that the unauthorized use of cell phones by its military forces was one of the factors that led to the killing of 89 soldiers in the Ukrainian missile attack carried out this week. In doing so, the death toll rose significantly from 63 (the latest Russian report).
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As you may recall, in an unusual admission, the Russians reported last Tuesday that dozens of military personnel were killed in a Ukrainian attack on the city of Mkivka in the Donetsk region.
According to reports in the Ukrainian media, the attack was carried out on New Year’s Eve, when the Ukrainian army managed to eliminate hundreds of pro-Russian militants belonging to the “Wagner group” in a large-scale attack in Mkivka, a suburb of the occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Without taking responsibility for the attack, the Ukrainian army announced for its part that 400 Russian soldiers were killed in an incident in Mkivka, which is held by Russian forces.
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Daniil Bezsonov, one of Russia’s official representatives in the Donetsk region, said that a Ukrainian missile hit a vocational school in Mykivka, where soldiers were housed, two minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day. “This is a huge blow,” Bazsonov wrote in a Telegram post, referring to the US-supplied missiles.