The detective story of how many victims were killed in the Makiivka New Year’s bombing threatens to remain unsolved after the Russian side reiterated that a list of soldiers killed in the raid will not be released. As reported by the Russian site 63.ru, quoted by the independent media, Meduza, the military commissar of Russia’s Samara region, Alexei Vdovin ruled out that the names of the soldiers who died in the bombing are made public, which according to Fly would not have done more than 89 victimsduring Kyiv he claims to have at least killed 400 Russian soldiers. Activists in the Samara region had collected 49,000 signatures on a petition asking for the soldiers’ names to be made public. Among them are said to have been several very young reservists who had been drafted for the war in the last few weeks Ukraine and that they came straight from the area Samara. According to Vdovin, keeping the names of the killed soldiers secret would avoid possible “provocations” by foreign intelligence agencies.
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