“Enemy casualties are 500 dead and wounded,” officials in Kyiv said of the attack on the village of Chulakivka, also on New Year’s Eve.
Ukraine’s general staff said on Tuesday that its forces had killed and wounded around 500 Russian soldiers in an artillery attack in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, while Moscow revised down the death toll from another attack on New Year’s Eve. , in the Donetsk region.
“The enemy’s losses are 500 dead and wounded,” the staff in Kyiv said of the attack on the village of Chulakivka, also on New Year’s Eve. The target was, according to Kyiv, military personnel and equipment.
These numbers are impossible to independently verify. Both warring sides frequently announce that they are inflicting heavy losses on their opponents in the war, now in its eleventh month.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian units were also hit in the village of Fedorivka on January 1, but the casualty count is not yet clear.
The two villages are located in the southeastern part of the Dnieper River, in the Russian-occupied areas of Kherson.
Earlier yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry downgraded its account of the New Year’s Day attack in Makiivka, citing 89 dead and blaming the use of mobile phones by soldiers who were holed up in a building “within range of enemy weapons” even though it was “forbidden”.
Ukraine gave a much heavier toll, speaking of 400 dead and 300 wounded.
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