The Russian Ministry of Defense has updated the death toll from a recent Ukrainian strike in the eastern Donetsk region of the country to just under 90.
Initially, it said roughly 60 service members died but provided the new count of 89 on Wednesday. The ministry also said the Ukrainian military conducted the strike using a U.S.-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS. The Ukrainian military said at least 400 Russian soldiers were killed and another 300 wounded, and the gap between the two sides' intelligence highlights that both countries have incentives to alter the unverified death counts.
Some Russian military bloggers expressed skepticism of both the death toll and the claim that cellphone data provided the key for Ukraine to locate them. Sevryukov noted that two of the six rockets had been intercepted in the attack, while the other four, equipped with high-explosive warheads, hit the building where Russian military personnel were. The British Defense Ministry noted that the extent of the damage could have occurred because the Russians had been storing ammunition nearby, leading to secondary explosions.
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