Russians accuse commanders of Ukrainian attack that caused many deaths
2023.01.03 10:10
Russians accuse commanders of Ukrainian attack that caused many deaths
Budrigannews.com – In response to the killing of dozens of Russian soldiers in one of the bloodiest attacks of the Ukraine conflict, Russian nationalists and some lawmakers have called for punishment for commanders they say ignored dangers.
The Russian defense ministry disclosed for the first time that 63 soldiers were killed in the New Year’s Eve strike in Makiivka, the twin city of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, which destroyed a temporary barracks in a vocational college.
According to Russian critics, the soldiers were being housed at the same time as an ammunition dump at the location. The Russian defense ministry said that four rockets fired from HIMARS launchers made in the United States hit the dump.
On television, cranes and bulldozers were picking through concrete debris that was several feet deep, destroying a huge building.
The number of people killed in Makiivka is thought to be in the hundreds by some Ukrainian and Russian nationalist bloggers, but pro-Russian officials say those numbers are overstated.
According to the RIA Novosti news agency, rallies to honor the deceased took place in a number of Russian cities, including Samara, where some of the participants originated. In the heart of Samara, mourners scattered flowers.
“Samara hasn’t slept, and I haven’t slept in three days. We maintain constant communication with our guys’ wives. It’s difficult and terrifying. We can’t be broken, though. “We will not forgive, and, without a doubt, victory will be ours,” Yekaterina Kolotovkina, a representative of a women’s council at an army unit, was quoted as saying at one of the rallies. “Grief unites… We will not forgive.”
Russian drone attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, which have become nightly, occurred just as the strike on Makiivka occurred. In his video address at night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the attacks were meant to “exhaust our people, our anti-aircraft defenses, and our energy.”
According to Ukrainian television, Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, 84 drones had been shot down in two Russian attacks since the new year.
He added, “There is an increase in the use of drones in all directions,” and that Ukraine’s armed forces were forming mobile groups to track them down using searchlight-equipped jeeps and other vehicles.
Russia’s Safeguard Service didn’t specify Makiivka in its day to day notice on Tuesday however reported a few offensives, including strikes sent off by Russian Aviation Powers that it said had killed in excess of 130 unfamiliar soldiers of fortune in Donetsk.
It said rocket and air strikes sent off at a “equipment fixation” close to Druzhkivka rail line station in Donetsk had killed “up to” 120 Ukrainian faculty, obliterated two HIMARS launchers and in excess of 800 rockets.
According to Ukrainian officials, Russia struck Ukraine-controlled areas of the Donetsk region on Monday, destroying an ice rink in Druzhkivka, the city of Kramatorsk, and the village of Yakovlivka.
On Tuesday, the governor of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, which is part of the industrial Donbass claimed by Moscow and includes neighboring Donetsk, stated that Ukrainian forces had made steady advances toward Russian-held Svatove and Kreminna.
A strike on a Russian-held area in the southern Kherson region on December 31 claimed the lives or injuries of approximately 500 Russian troops, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian military.
The accounts from the battlefield could not be independently verified by Reuters.
A group of volunteers from Ukraine known as “Black Tulip” were seen in Reuters footage exhuming the remains of fallen soldiers near the front line in the Donetsk region.
According to volunteer Oleksii Iukov, 37, “Whenever you dig up a boy, you live through his nightmare and the horror he went through in his last moment, when he understood this is the end.”
According to Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesperson for the Eastern group of the Ukrainian armed forces, 259 shelling attacks and 29 combat clashes occurred on Tuesday in the largely destroyed Ukrainian-held city of Bakhmut in Donetsk.
He stated, “The Ukrainian armed forces are doing everything to ensure the failure of the Russian attacks.”
Despite the fact that commanders were aware that the building was within range of Ukrainian rockets, Russian military bloggers claimed that ammunition storage in the same building as a barracks was to blame for the extent of Makiivka’s destruction.
According to one of the most well-known Russian nationalist military bloggers, Igor Girkin, a former commander of pro-Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, hundreds of people had been killed or injured. He claimed that the site’s storage of military equipment was uncamouflaged.
Archangel Spetznaz Z, a Russian military blogger who has more than 700,000 Telegram followers, wrote, “What happened in Makiivka is horrible.”
“Who came up with the idea to put a lot of soldiers in a single building where even fools know that even if artillery hits, many will be wounded or killed?” he penned. He stated that commanders “couldn’t care less.”
Zelenskiy did not mention the Makiivka strike in his Monday nightly speech because Ukraine almost never publicly claims responsibility for attacks on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine.
Legislators in Russia were also enraged.
A former deputy foreign minister and member of the Russian Senate, Grigory Karasin, demanded not only vengeance against Ukraine and NATO supporters but also “an exacting internal analysis.”
Sergei Mironov, a lawmaker and previous executive of Russia’s upper place of parliament, requested criminal obligation for the authorities who had “permitted the centralization of military staff in an unprotected structure” and “every one of the greater specialists who didn’t give the legitimate degree of safety”.
Russia has increasingly used massive air strikes against Ukrainian cities after suffering defeats on the battlefield in the second half of 2022.
Since the “special military operation” began on February 24, when thousands of people have been killed, millions have been displaced, cities have turned into ruins, and Cold War divisions have reopened, Russia denies targeting civilians.
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