Record Photograph: Commander in Leader of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov talk over with an artillery coaching centre, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, at an undisclosed location in Ukraine November 3, 2023. Ukrainian Presidential Press Carrier/Handout by the use of REUTERS Achieve Licensing RightsLVIV, Ukraine, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s defence minister ordered on Saturday an investigation into an alleged Russian ballistic missile assault on Ukrainian attack brigade, after studies that greater than 20 infantrymen have been killed throughout an awards rite.”My condolences to the households of the fallen infantrymen from the 128th Separate Mountain Attack Transcarpathian Brigade,” Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov mentioned in a social media observation, including that he had ordered a “complete investigation.”In a separate observation at the Telegram messaging app, Ukraine’s Armed Forces mentioned that Russia attacked the Zaporizhzhia area with the Iskander ballistic missile.”Servicemen have been killed, and native citizens have been additionally injured,” the army mentioned.It used to be now not transparent what number of infantrymen died.The statements got here after a flurry of previous studies on Ukrainian social media and from army bloggers that greater than 20 infantrymen have been killed in a village with regards to the entrance traces in Zaporizhzhia throughout an award rite commemorating the Artillery Day on Friday.In its day by day studies on battlefield actions, the Russian Defence Ministry mentioned best that Russian forces “inflicted fireplace” on a unit of Ukraine’s attack brigade within the area, killing as much as 30 army workforce.Reuters may now not independently examine the studies.Each Russia and Ukraine have ceaselessly underestimated their army casualties within the 20-month-long struggle, whilst exaggerating the losses they declare to have inflicted upon each and every different.Additonal reporting via Elaine Monaghan in Washington,
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