JANUARY 3, 2023, UPDATE:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Emergency crews are sifting through the rubble of a building that was struck by Ukrainian rockets, killing at least 63 Russian soldiers. The attack was the latest blow to the Kremlin’s war strategy that Ukraine says could herald a shift in Moscow’s tactics. An Associated Press video of the scene Tuesday (Jan. 3, 2023) in Makiivka, a town in the Russian-occupied eastern Donetsk region, showed five cranes and emergency workers removing concrete rubble under a clear blue sky. In the attack, which apparently happened last weekend, Ukrainian forces fired rockets from a U.S.-provided HIMARS launch system, according to a Russian Defense Ministry statement. It was one of the deadliest attacks on Russian forces since the war began more than 10 months ago.
JANUARY 3, 2023:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is preparing to step up its attacks on Ukraine using Iranian-made exploding drones. Moscow is looking for ways to keep up the pressure on Kyiv after months of battlefield setbacks for the Kremlin’s war strategy, including the death of at least 63 soldiers in one recent Ukrainian attack. Zelenskyy said late Monday (Jan. 2, 2023) that Ukraine has information Russia is planning a prolonged attack by exploding drones. He said the goal is to break Ukraine’s resistance more than 10 months after Russia invaded its neighbor. Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to shore up confidence in Moscow’s flawed war effort which in recent months has been dented by a Ukrainian counteroffensive backed by Western-supplied weapons.
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