In the Russian military department, the blame for the destruction of hundreds of mobilized in Makeevka was placed on the military personnel themselves. They allegedly massively used mobile phones despite the ban. According to the propaganda media, this was stated by Lieutenant-General Sergey Sevryukov, First Deputy Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation..

He also named the number of dead Russian servicemen: the Ministry of Defense convinces that their number has increased to 89 people..

“Currently, a commission is working to investigate the circumstances of the incident.. But it is already obvious that the main reason for what happened was the inclusion and massive use, contrary to the ban, by personnel of mobile phones in the reach of enemy weapons,” he said..

According to him, this is what allowed the Armed Forces of Ukraine to locate and determine the coordinates of the location of military personnel for a missile strike..

At the same time, he vowed to "

To sweeten the “bitter pill” received by Russian society, Sevryukov rolled out a whole list of Ukrainian equipment allegedly destroyed by the Russian army in response.

In particular, according to Sevryukov, the Russian military destroyed “the same” HIMARS installation, as well as four more of the same units, four MLRS RM-70 Vampire combat vehicles and more than 800 rockets for them, eight vehicles, as well as “more.

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Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that "

According to the Stratcom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of the strike, 400 mobilized were killed, 300 were injured..