A Ukrainian missile strike on January 1 against a vocational school in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine housing mobilized Russian troops has become one of the bloodiest incidents of Russia's war in Ukraine. Here is what is known
The strike on Professional Technical School No. 19 in Makiivka, a twin city to the regional capital of Donetsk which has been controlled by Russian proxy forces since 2014, occurred at 0001 on New Year's Day, Daniil Bezsonov, a Russian-installed Donetsk official, said.The governor of Russia's Samara region said that many of the dead soldiers were locals.
The ministry acknowledged the attack only in the final paragraph of a 528-word daily roundup, more than 36 hours after the attack took place. In a post on the Telegram messaging app, Igor Girkin, a former FSB officer instrumental in starting the initial 2014 war in the Donbas, said that there were "many hundreds" of killed and injured.
In footage circulated on social media and geolocated by Reuters, the vocational school, a large complex of Soviet-era buildings, appears virtually razed as emergency service workers sift through rubble.Coming at the climax of the new year's celebrations, the most important holiday of the year in Russia, the attack has resonated within Russia.
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