A Russian general blamed his own soldiers for their deaths in a Ukrainian artillery attack in Makiivka that killed at least 89.
Russian Gen. Lt. Sergei Sevryukov said in a statement soldiers' phone signals allowed Kyiv's forces to "determine the coordinates of the location of military personnel" and launchThe Russian military's top brass came under increasing scrutiny Wednesday as more details emerged of how at least 89 Russian soldiers, and possibly many more, were killed in a Ukrainian artillery attack on a single building.
Emily Ferris, a Research Fellow on Russia and Eurasia at the Royal United Services Institute in London, told The Associated Press it is "very hard to verify" whether cellphone signaling and geolocation were to blame for the accurate strike. Putin said the Zircon missiles that the Admiral Gorshkov frigate was carrying were a "unique weapon," capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and with a range of 1,000 kilometers . Russia says the missiles can't be intercepted.
But Ferris, the analyst, said that "there should be a bit of caution around leaning too heavily on this as a sign of Russian army's weakness." In the same post, the ministry said the building struck by Ukrainian missiles was little more than 12 kilometers from the front line, within "one of the most contested areas of the conflict," in the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk region.
Vladlen Tatarsky, a well-known military blogger, accused Russian generals of "demonstrating their own stupidity and misunderstanding of what's going on the troops, where everyone has cellphones." The Institute for the Study of War saw in the incident further evidence that Moscow isn't properly utilizing the reservists it began calling up last September.
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