Russia now says 89 soldiers were killed in the attack in Makiivka, in the occupied Donetsk region.
Russia has said a new year missile attack that killed at least 89 Russian soldiers happened because troops were using their mobile phones.
While the number of people killed is unverified, it is the largest death toll acknowledged by Russia in the war. The deputy commander of the regiment, Lt Col Bachurin, was among those killed, the military of defence said in a statement on Telegram in the early hours of Wednesday.But it is "already obvious" that the main cause of the attack was the presence and "mass use" of mobile phones by troops in range of Ukrainian weapons, despite this being banned, he added.
The vocational college was packed with conscripts at the time - men who were among the 300,000 called up in President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation in September. Ammunition was also being stored close to the site, which was reduced to rubble.The building housing the conscripts was all but flattened in the Ukrainian attack
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