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kyiv denies human damage allegedly caused by Russian missile strikes in Kramatorsk
The structure of the concrete building is intact despite broken windows and furniture blown by the explosion.
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In Kramatorsk in the Donbass, Russian missile strikes did not cause the human damage claimed by Moscow.
More than 600 Ukrainian soldiers were killed according to the Russian general staff.
A report refuted by the authorities in kyiv.
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With our special correspondents in Kiev
,
Aabla Jounaïdi
and
Boris Vichith
In a technical science training center in Kramatorsk, employees are busy sweeping away what remains of broken windows and furniture blown up by the explosion.
The concrete building structure is intact and the anger, like the weather here, is cold.
"
The rocket fell here on Saturday evening at 7 p.m.
," says Anna, who is the school secretary.
It was our Christmas.
See for yourself the damage in our school!
In the middle of the courtyard, a crater five meters deep into which the debris of the building is thrown.
But no trace of blood, let alone the bodies of the 600 men Moscow claims to have killed here.
Sergei, another administration employee, believes that Ukrainian soldiers once occupied one of the buildings in the complex, emptied of its students since the start of the war: “
We targeted this building.
And I know that there have been soldiers here before.
It's not a secret.
Here there were military vehicles.
Maybe some provocateur gave the Russians the coordinates.
I don't blame the military.
They have to live somewhere.
They defend the city and we have no military bases here.
So they use this kind of building as a winter shelter.
»
assertions difficult to confirm.
But one certainty, Moscow did not kill 600 fighters in Kramatorsk on January 7, Christmas Day.
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To read also: Ukraine: "Many of ours are dead but the Russians are even more likely to die"
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