Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is preparing to step up its attacks on Ukraine using Iranian-made exploding drones.
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a vocational school in the Russian-occupied town of Makiivka, Ukraine, Dec. 20, 2022. Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, show the aftermath of a major strike by Ukrainian forces that Moscow says killed 63 Russian troops.
The Strategic Communications Directorate of Ukraine’s armed forces claimed Sunday that around 400 mobilized Russian soldiers were killed in a vocational school building in Makiivka and about 300 more were wounded. That claim couldn’t be independently verified. The Russian statement said the strike occurred “in the area of Makiivka” and didn’t mention the vocational school.
Unconfirmed reports in Russian-language media said the victims were mobilized reservists from the region. He said the goal is to break Ukraine’s resistance by “exhausting our people, air defense, our energy.” “Such profound military failures will continue to complicate Putin’s efforts to appease the Russian pro-war community and retain the dominant narrative in the domestic information space,” it added.
Since September, Ukraine’s armed forces have shot down almost 500 drones, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat claimed in a television interview Tuesday. A reporter with French broadcaster TF1 was live on television screens when a blast from one of the strikes erupted behind him in Druzhkivka. A German reporter with Bild newspaper suffered a minor injury from shrapnel in the same bombardment.
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