The Ukrainian military claims to have carried out yet another devastating attack on Russian troops, killing at least hundreds of soldiers, CNN reported on Tuesday.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that around 500 Russian troops were either killed or wounded in an attack near Chulakivka, a town in Ukraine's southern Kherson region on New Year's eve, according to the publication CNN report.
"The enemy continues to suffer losses. It was confirmed that on December 31 Ukrainian Defense Forces hit an enemy troop and equipment stronghold near Chulakivka, Kherson region,” the General Staff said.
"Around 500 enemy troops were wounded and killed," the General Staff added, as per the report.
Sharing its achievement on the war front, Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian armed forces in the south told Ukrainian television, "This is one of our achievements in this direction of the front." "There will be more because we identify the enemy's locations."
A known Russian war blogger known as "Operation Z" on Tuesday wrote on Telegram, “There is no f***ing denying” that Ukraine is now targeting barracks and other Russian troop strongholds with HIMARS, a reference to High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems. The blogger also added Chulakivka to his list of hits on Russian troops that took place in December.
It comes after both Russian and Ukrainian authorities confirmed an attack at a vocational school housing Russian conscripts in Makiivka, in the Donetsk region, after midnight on New Year’s Day.
The Russian defense ministry on Monday acknowledged the Makiivka attack, claiming that the attack killed 63 Russian servicemen, which would make it one of the deadliest single episodes of the war for Moscow’s forces.
Pro-Russian commentator, Igor Girkin told BBC that the victims were mainly mobilised troops - that is, recent conscripts, rather than those who chose to fight. He also said ammunition was stored in the same building as the soldiers, making the damage worse.