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Makiivka is a leading metallurgical and coal-mining centre of the Donets Basin, with heavy industry and coking plants supporting the local steel and coal industries. The city was captured by pro-Russian separatists in 2014 at the start of the war in Donbas and is currently occupied by Russia.
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The strike on Professional Technical School No 19 in Makiivka, a twin city to the regional capital of Donetsk that has been controlled by Russian proxy forces since 2014, occurred during the first minute after midnight on New Year’s Day, Daniil Bezsonov, a Russian-installed Donetsk official, said. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Ukraine struck wi...
Reports of casualties vary. Reuters was unable to independently verify how many people were killed. Russia’s defence ministry said on Monday that 63 soldiers had been killed in the strike, an assessment echoed by a source close to Donetsk’s Russia-installed separatist leadership, who told Reuters that dozens had died. The ministry acknowledged the ...
Coming at the climax of celebrations for the New Year, the most important holiday of the year in Russia, the attack has resonated within Russia. Mourners voiced grief and anger at a rare public commemoration in Russia for the scores of soldiers killed in the Ukrainian strike. A report by state-owned news agency TASS, citing Donetsk officials and sa...
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Jan 3, 2023 · Russia's defence ministry has so far conceded that 89 people were killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka at around midnight on New Year's Eve. One commander's wife accused the West of...
Jan 4, 2023 · The Russian defence ministry says mobile phones used by their own forces allowed Ukraine to destroy a building, killing dozens of conscripts in the eastern city of Makiivka.
Jan 4, 2023 · Ukraine says 400 soldiers were killed - and another 300 wounded - in the attack on a college for conscripts in Makiivka, in the occupied Donetsk area. It is the largest number of deaths...
Jul 5, 2023 · Ukraine’s military launched an overnight strike on the Russian-occupied city of Makiivka, showing that it could still attack targets deep behind Russian lines as its troops fight in...
Jan 2, 2023 · Moscow said a Ukrainian air strike on army barracks in the Russian-occupied town of Makiivka killed 63 soldiers, in one of the bloodiest blows to the Kremlin’s ground forces since the start of...
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