Putin sees 700 soldiers blown up after missile hits barracks filled with bombs

The deadliest strike of the invasion has seen several hundreds of Russian soldiers killed in one go after Ukraine targeted barracks stacked high with bombs.

It is being reported that around 700 of Russian President Vladimir Putin's men were blown up in the attack, which saw the Russian's used a former school in Makiivka, Donetsk as a weapons storage unit.

Several armoured cars, boxes of ammunition and missiles were also taken out.

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It happened while Putin was giving his New Year's address live on Russian TV.

The explosion was so big that just one wall of the two-storey building was left standing.

Ukraine's public response was somewhat comedic, telling Russia that its soldiers should not be “smoking in inappropriate places”.

It was claimed by Igor Girkin, a Russian army veteran and one of the top men of Russia's annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas, that those who were killed were mainly new conscripts who joined as part of Putin's mass conscription in the latter part of 2022.

Official Russian figures claim that just 63 soldiers had died, with Kremlin bosses said to be annoyed that so many soldiers and so much ammunition was left in one place.

Exiled Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov rather chillingly said: “The uncounted and uninteresting bodies will remain to rot under the concrete rubble.

“Soldiers’ meat in Russia is so cheap that it makes no sense to count.”

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Russia also said that Ukraine used the American-made HIMARS rockets to carry out the attacks.

Each HIMARS – or High Mobility Artillery Rocket System – unit costs around £2 million – with the United States supplying four units to Ukraine in May, 2022.

Another 18 were donated in September, with Russia reportedly yet to destroy a single of of the powerful six-rocket units.

The rockets used are precision strike units, so are capable of targeting almost any site within a 310 mile range.

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