January 4, 2023
1. At least 89 people have been killed by the U.S. MLRS in Donbass
The number of casualties in the Ukrainian New Year’s night strike against Russian troops has grown to 89 servicemen, Russian MoD announced on January 4. It has been announced earlier that 63 have been killed. The attack took place in the city of Makeevka in Donetsk People’s Republic just after midnight on January 1, 2023. The number of injured persons still has not been announced by the evening on January 4.
The death toll has grown to 89 people, including the unit’s deputy commander, the Ministry said, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of a vocational school where the troops were stationed on New Year’s night. The U.S. HIMERS launcher that opened fire was later destroyed in a retaliatory Russian strike.
While a fact-finding mission is still investigating the tragic incident, it is “already obvious that the main reason for what happened was the turning on and mass use of mobile phones by personnel – contrary to the ban – within the range of enemy weapons” which allowed Ukrainian forces to trace their coordinates, Lieutenant General Sergey Sevryukov from the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces told reporters. He added that those persons who were responsible for such tragedy will be punished.
Russian military experts urge the Government to send the fragments of the U.S. HIMARS missiles that killed and wounded Russian servicemen in Makeevka – either to President Biden or the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Moscow – as a symbol that such crime made with the assistance of the current U.S. Administration will be unforgettable by Russia, like many other cases
Russian military experts made reference to a similar action done by Dmitry Rogozin, injured by a shrapnel fired by the French-made Caesar self-propelled howitzer in Donbass. See item 2 below.
2. Ex-Russian space boss sent piece of shrapnel to French ambassador
The former head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, who was injured in a Ukrainian strike in Donbass, says he sent a piece of shrapnel removed from his body and a letter to Pierre Levy. the French ambassador in Moscow,
Rogozin was wounded in the Russian city of Donetsk on December 21,2022 when the hotel where he was staying came under AFU artillery attack. Russia’s Investigative Committee claimed that Kiev’s forces used French-made Caesar self-propelled howitzers, which Paris has supplied to Ukraine, to carry out the attack.
The former space boss said he was wounded in the right shoulder with shrapnel which landed “a millimeter” away from his spine.
On January 4, Rogozin told the media that the piece of metal from Caesar missile removed from his body was sent directly to the French envoy accredited in Moscow,
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
