BBCNEWS BBC News July 6, 2024
russia has made a rare acknowledgement that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year's eve attack by ukrainian forces. the strikes were carried out with himars rockets supplied by the us and destroyed a former school in the donetsk region, where the soldiers are said to have been temporarily deployed. several russian politicians have said commanders must be held to account for allowing such a large number of troops to be concentrated in an unprotected area. in ukraine, the country's armed forces say the strike killed "hundreds" of russian soldiers, as our correspondent in kyiv, h...