Russia on Monday admitted dozens of its soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian strike on Russian-controlled territory in a bloody New Year's weekend for both sides of the conflict.
A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System rocket is fired by US forces during a US-Philippines joint exercise in Capas, Tarlac, October 10, 2016. Russia said that US-supplied HIMARS rocket systems had been used in the attack that killed dozens of its soldiers in Makiivka, Ukraine on New Year's weekend 2023.
Without claiming the strike, Ukraine's military put the death toll much higher, claiming nearly 400 troops were killed. Following the strikes, the power company Ukrenergo said the situation with the electricity supply in Kyiv was now "more complicated."Russia's New Year assaults—which targeted downtown areas of large cities—show a change in tactics, said an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The Russian onslaught damaged the Kherson hospital and also left the city and the surrounding settlements without electricity.
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