The Armed Forces of Ukraine rejected Russia’s claim about the Kramatorsk attack.
“The information is as true as data that they destroyed all our Himars,” Sergiy Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told the Saspilin media outlet. In the attack on Makiivka, Ukraine used Himars missiles supplied by the US.
Cherevati said that Russia could not deliver accurate strikes.
The Russian statement did not say when exactly the strike took place – only that Russian intelligence had detected more than 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers in two buildings in Kramatorsk “over the past 24 hours”.
The industrial city, in the eastern Donetsk region, has been the target of repeated Russian missile attacks.