“The Kiev regime has launched a strike with 6 rocket-propelled projectiles by U.S.-manufactured HIMARS MLRS at the provisional base of a unit of the Russian Armed Forces near Makeyevka (Donetsk People's Republic),” the Ministry said in a statement on Telegram.

The Ministry noted that “the impact of 4 rockets with high-explosive warheads has resulted in the death of 63 Russian servicemen.”

“Families and friends of these servicemen will be fully assisted and supported,” it added.

Meanwhile, Ukraine claimed that its forces had killed as many as 400 Russians in the strike on the military base in an occupied part of Donetsk. (ILKHA)