Ukraine has claimed that its armed forces killed 400 Russians and injured 300 more in a missile attack on New Year’s Eve.

The attack was on a Russian military base in occupied Makiivka in Donetsk Oblast. The Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the claim on Telegram. The Russian-installed administration of the Donetsk region in Ukraine said on Sunday that at least 25 rockets were fired at the region in the attack. …

Igor Girkin, a former commander of pro-Russian troops in east Ukraine who, according to the Independent, has become one of the highest profile Russian nationalist military bloggers, acknowledged the death toll was in the hundreds.

[At some point, these kinds of losses will become unsustainable. Ukraine apparently has pretty good intel on Russian troop locations and concentrations, which allows for the precision HIMARS system to be used most effectively. And Donetsk is one of Russia’s more secure areas in this invasion. — Ed]