It wasn’t possible to verify either side’s claims due to the fighting. About 300 more of them were wounded, officials alleged. Ukraine’s armed forces claimed the strike killed around 400 mobilized Russian soldiers housed in a vocational school building in Makiivka. It was one of the deadliest single attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the war began more than 10 months ago and the highest death toll in a single incident acknowledged so far by either side in the conflict. READ MORE: Russian ministry says Ukrainian rocket strike killed dozens of Russian troops Hundreds of Russian troops were reportedly clustered in a building close to the front line of the war, well within range of the enemy’s Western-supplied precision artillery, possibly sitting close to an ammunition store, and perhaps unwittingly helping Kyiv’s forces to zero in on them. ![]() The scene last weekend in the Russian-held eastern Ukrainian town of Makiivka, where the soldiers were temporarily stationed, appears to have been a recipe for disaster. ![]() KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The Russian military’s top brass came under increasing scrutiny Wednesday as more details emerged of how at least 89 Russian soldiers, and possibly many more, were killed in a Ukrainian artillery attack on a single building.
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