Ukraine confirms death of 500 Russian soldiers

Yesterday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that its units killed and wounded about 500 Russian servicemen in an artillery shelling near the village of Cholakovka in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine. Authorities said the attack took place on New Year’s Eve, noting that the attacks on Russian units in the village of Fedorovka took place 24 hours after the attack, and that the number of casualties is not yet known. Fedorovka and Cholakovka lie on the southeastern bank of the Dnieper in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region. In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense officially recognized the death of 63 of its servicemen, and Russian military bloggers spoke about hundreds of victims. According to media reports, the dead were conscripts called up during partial mobilization in Russia, and it was they who gathered in the building to celebrate the New Year. On the ground, Ukrainian forces bombed the Kalininsky region in Gorlovka and fired three 155mm shells used by NATO. And the representative office of the Donetsk People’s Republic at the Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination of Issues Related to the War in Ukraine reported yesterday through its account on the Telegram website that “shelling by Ukrainian armed formations was recorded. Earlier on Monday, the governor of the city of Sevastopol in Crimea, Mikhail Razvogaev, confirmed that two drones had been shot down over the Black Sea. And according to what Razvogaev published in his account on the Telegram website, he said that two planes fell over the Black Sea near Sevastopol.