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The Ukrainian strike on Makiivka on New Year's Eve left 89 people dead, Russia announced on Wednesday, where rallies in memory of the soldiers killed gave rise to rare public demonstrations of anger and sadness.
This is the heaviest record in a single attack admitted by Moscow since the start of the offensive.
Vladimir Putin has not yet reacted publicly.
The Ukrainian general staff confirmed on Monday that it had carried out the strike.
The Ministry of Defense in Moscow, for its part, reported the explosion of “four missiles”.
According to this source, they were fired by HIMARS systems, a weapon supplied by the United States to Ukrainian forces and which hit "a temporary deployment center" of the army.
The announcement of this strike comes after a New Year marked by Russian bombardments on kyiv and other cities on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, which left five people dead and dozens injured.
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6:55 am: Death of a former speaker of the Russian Parliament
Former Speaker of the Russian Parliament Ruslan Khasbulatov has died at the age of 80, state television announced on Tuesday.
Of Chechen origin, he died at his home in the suburbs of Moscow.
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Rouslan Khasbulatov, a close ally of Boris Yeltsin, was appointed Speaker of Parliament.
The two men had resisted the August 1991 coup together. But a rivalry quickly pitted them.
The power struggle culminated in the October 1993 revolt, when Yeltsin sent tanks to storm the parliament building.
Khasbulatov was then briefly imprisoned.
He was granted amnesty in 1994, but his political career was over.
"Yeltsin basically ruined my life," Ruslan Khasbulatov told the Argumenty i Fakty
newspaper in 2014
.
6:45 a.m .: Moscow points the finger at cell phones
“At present, a commission is investigating the circumstances” of the attack in Makiïvka, Russian General Sergei Sevrioukov said on Tuesday evening in a video message broadcast by the Ministry of Defense.
“But it is already clear that the main cause (…) is the ignition and massive use by personnel of mobile phones within range of enemy weapons, contrary to the ban”.
According to him, this would have made it possible to geolocate the troops.
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This Wednesday, January 4, the battle for numbers could continue around the Russian soldiers killed in Makiivka on New Year's Eve. As anger rises in Russia against the military command, Moscow finally admitted on Tuesday evening that the Ukrainian strike left 89 dead .
However, according to former separatist commander Igor Strelkov, very familiar with the situation on the ground, the number of victims would be “several hundred”.
According to the Telegram channel “Rybar”, one of the main pro-Russian sources on the war, the destroyed building indeed housed 600 people.
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