Russia says 63 of its soldiers dead in HIMARS attack on Donetsk

Russia's Defense Ministry said that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian missile attack in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's Donetsk province on New Year's Eve. NBC's Matt Bradley reports from Kyiv.


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[vitahah]

If Russia admit to 63, you can multiply that by alot

[longjohn]

2022 is the year that Russia went from having the 2nd best Military in the world to having the 2nd best Military in Ukraine

[LandSharkEatsU]

"Ain't no fun when the deer has the gun"

[poulthomas]

How dare people who have been attacked fight back. Don't they know they are supposed to just submit?

[boataxe]

If they admit to 63 it was probably 630.

[DmitryKeylin]

If those are Russian numbers then you have to add a zero at the end, so it's 630

[robtim]

Moral of the story…don’t start a war unless you are ready for death

[MrNathanstenzel]

The Russian soldiers need to point their guns at Putin.

[darthvirgin]

if the russians say they lost that many, double-triple even quadruple it to get the real count.

[jannibal]

Anybody who has looked at even the briefly shown images of the building in this video which the new conscripts were kept - at least 700 of them staying in that building, can probably surmise that the only way to have survived that strike and total devastation and leveling to the ground of a building that was at least 4 stories tall and very large was to not have been in the barracks when the HIMARS artillery hit! I saw other video of the aftermath of the strike that shows the bodies of Russian troops in their underwear laying around the perimeter of the building where they were obviously blown right out of their beds inside the building. Russia is lying by claiming that only 63 were killed in this attack. Ukraine estimates that 600 may have been killed (not 400) and 100 seriously wounded.

[stoopidpursun]

🎻 Actual size of the violin I'm playing for them.

[geo]

If you want to show your troops how little you care about them, just have them sleep on top of their ammo.

[fireborn]

If the Russians are so worried about losses, they should pull out of all Ukraine, including Crimea.

[joshblaylock]

may not be in this video but idk how a country can attack another and then complain about being struck back

[AndrewBurbo-zwpf]

if Russia doesn't like how wars are fought maybe they shouldn't have started one.

[evanerys]

Russia did what they did, and now they are finding out.

[onerimeuse]

Fun fact, since it wasn't mentioned in this report. Based on the size of the building and the fact that it's literally deleted, it's theorized that there was an ammo depot in the building as well.
So it seems like the Russians took their tank building theory of placing ammo under their troops and applied it to their baracks as well.
*old commercial voice* real men of

[Nematodes]

Oh yeah, because Putin clearly cares about the safety of his soldiers

[Trogdor]

I feel bad for those young boys and their families. They didn't choose this war. Russians need to protest en masse; get the dictator out and stop voting for authoritarian type men. They're not strong, their weakness is just particularly aggressive.

[joerogers]

What did Russia think was going to happen.