KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Officials at a vocational school in an eastern Ukraine city dismissed claims by Russia that hundreds of Ukrainian troops were killed in a missile strike there, saying Monday that a rocket merely blew out windows and damaged classrooms.
A separate, six-story school building was largely undamaged. There were neither signs of a Ukrainian military presence nor any casualties. She said that before the war began last February the school had more than 300 students, most of them studying mechanical engineering, with most lessons moving online when Russia invaded.Ukrainian officials on Sunday quickly denied the Russian claims it had lost a large number of soldiers in the attack.
During the war, both sides have regularly claimed killing hundreds of each other’s soldiers in attacks. The claims can seldom be independently verified because of the fighting. A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said the strikes on Kramatorsk were retaliation for Ukraine’s attack in Makiivka on New Year’s Eve, in which at least 89 Russian soldiers gathered at a temporary barracks died, according to Moscow. Ukrainian authorities said the death toll in that attack ran into the hundreds.
Ukraine’s presidential office reported Monday that at least three civilians were killed and 12 others wounded in the country over the previous 24 hours as nine Ukrainian regions in the southeast of the country were shelled.
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