Without claiming the strike, Kyiv’s military command announced up to 400 Russian soldiers were killed

A New Year’s Day attack on a complex in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Makiivka killed scores of recently mobilised troops sent by Moscow, according to reports on both sides, in what could be one of the deadliest known incidents involving Russian conscripts so far.

Without claiming the strike, Ukraine’s military command said up to 400 Russian soldiers were killed in the incident in Makiivka, a city in the Moscow-controlled parts of the Donetsk region.

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