The 'mass use' of cell phones by military personnel was the 'main cause' of the strike that killed scores of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine on New Year's Day, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
From CNN's Yulia Kesaieva in Kyiv and Josh PenningtonThe General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said around 500 Russian troops were either killed or wounded in a hit near Chulakivka, a town in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, on New Year's Eve.
Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian armed forces in the south, told Ukrainian television:"This is one of our achievements in this direction of the front."CNN cannot verify the Ukrainian claim. Moscow has not publicly commented on the Chulakivka claim.
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