Moscow claims it killed 600 soldiers while Ukraine denies
Moscow claimed, without providing any evidence, that a "mass missile strike" in the eastern city of Kramatorsk had killed more than 600 Ukrainian forces.
It said it retaliated against a Ukrainian attack on a Russian base that killed dozens of Russian soldiers on New Year's Day.
But the Ukrainian military says this is untrue.
Russia's defence ministry said it had killed more than 600 Ukrainian service members in a strike on buildings temporarily housing Ukrainian forces. More than 1,300 Ukrainian troops were housed in two buildings, Moscow said.
It called the attacks a "retaliatory strike" to avenge the deaths of 89 Russian troops killed in Makiivka. Ukraine says as many as 400 people were killed or wounded in that incident, while numbers into the hundreds have been given by Russian nationalists on social media.
Moscow is yet to offer any proof of its claim about the Kramatorsk deaths.
By matching pictures of the attack published by local officials to Google satellite imagery and other images online, has confirmed the location of two sites about a mile apart in Kramatorsk.
The strikes happened near two school buildings - vocational schools number 28 and 47 - which match with the dormitory numbers provided by Russia. Moscow says the buildings were housing Ukrainian military personnel.
However, there's no visual evidence that shows these two buildings were badly hit or that there has been mass deaths on the scale claimed by Russia.
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