The Ministry of Defense called the use of phones the reason for the death of the military during the shelling of Makiivka

First Deputy Chief of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Sergei Sevryukov, said that the reason death 89 Russian servicemen during the shelling of the vocational school building with HIMARS systems in Makeyevka on New Year’s Eve began to use mobile phones. The Ministry of Defense promised to punish the officials responsible for the death of the soldiers.

“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,” said Mr. Sevryukov at a briefing. Among the dead was the deputy commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Bachurin.

On January 1, DPR Deputy Information Minister Daniil Bezsonov said that on New Year’s Eve, the Ukrainian armed forces launched a HIMARS missile attack on the vocational school building in Makeyevka. At this time, according to him, the mobilized were sitting at the festive table.

The next day, the information was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense and reported that 63 soldiers were killed during the shelling of the vocational school building. Among the dead in Makeevka were servicemen from the Samara region, the governor of the region Dmitry Azarov spoke about this.

Anastasia Larina