Mobilised soldiers from Samara Oblast are among those killed in Makiivka
Some of the Russian soldiers killed in temporarily occupied Makiivka had been mobilised from Samara Oblast in the Russian Federation.
Source: Meduza, an independent Russian media outlet; regional Russian media, citing Dmitry Azarov, the governor of Samara Oblast
Quote from Azarov: "Some of those who came under attack from enemy forces were from our oblast. Unfortunately, some were wounded, some have been killed. The information is currently being confirmed."
Details: Azarov advised servicemen’s families to contact the military commissariats and the Russian Ministry of Defence hotline for more information.
A group of mobilised men from Samara reported that as a result of the attack in Makiivka, "all the company's property was destroyed and remains under the rubble".
The wife of a mobilised soldier from Samara told journalists that there were "many dead" as a result of the shelling of the base and many soldiers had been "torn to pieces".
She added that the soldiers who survived had been left "practically naked", as most of their clothes and food had been left in the destroyed vocational school building.
Background:
- Earlier, the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (StratCom) reported that about 400 mobilised Russians were killed and about 300 more invaders were wounded with varying degrees of severity in a precision strike on Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, on New Year’s Eve.
- The Russian soldiers had been stationed in the building of a local vocational school, No. 19.
- Igor Girkin (Strelkov), a Russian terrorist and former so-called "Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People’s Republic", confirmed that a large number of Russian servicemen had been killed in occupied Makiivka, adding that something like this could happen again.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed a group of Russian servicemen in the temporarily occupied city of Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, but is claiming that the losses are much smaller than those reported by StratCom.
- Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has urged Russians not to fear death, saying that "life is highly overrated" and death is inevitable anyway.
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