A New Year’s Eve strike on a elaborate in the Russian-managed Ukrainian town of Makiivka killed 63 Russian troops, the Russian defence ministry declared on Monday.

“As a consequence of a strike by 4 missiles with a substantial-explosive warhead on a temporary deployment position, 63 Russian servicemen were being killed,” the defence ministry said in a assertion.

Without saying obligation for the strike, Ukraine’s army claimed the true figure was close to 400 Russian troops killed through the assault in the Moscow-managed part of the jap region of Donetsk.

A senior Russian-backed regional formal the location, Daniil Bezsonov, explained a setting up had been strike by U.S.-designed HIMARS rockets at all around midnight on New Year’s Eve.