Today it has been known that Russia attacked on Saturday with a missile a military training field in the center-east of Ukraine, more than 100 kilometers from the front line, leaving numerous victims, said Ukrainian military managers on Monday. According to a Ukrainian military blogger, Yuri Butousov, between 30 and 40 soldiers died and up to 90 were injured. Officially, no number of victims has been made public. “The tragedy in the training field is a horrible consequence of an enemy attack,” the Commander of Ukrainian Terrestrial Troops Mikhail Drapati, who expressed his condolences to the relatives of the “deceased.” A Ukrainian deputy, Mariana Bezugla, said on Facebook that the attack occurred when the soldiers were aligned, and accused Ukrainian military command of “stupidity” and “inability to adapt to the new reality.” However, a military source rejected the statements of the deputy. “There was no alignment or congregation,” said the source under condition of anonymity. “The enemy used an ISKANDER-M ballistic missile with fragmentation ammunition”, which was “spread by a large area where there were tents” of soldiers, he said. General Drapati announced the opening of an investigation into what happened and denounced “inopportune decisions and less learned lessons.”
