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Rocket event in Donetsk, Trudivs'ke area, Ukraine on Tue 20th February 2024

20th February 2024

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The first strike targeted soldiers from the Russian army’s 39th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in Trudivs'ke in eastern Ukraine. Two companies of infantry had lined up along with their commander, Col. G. Musaev, so that Maj. Gen. Oleg Lvovich Moiseev, commander of the 29th Combined Arms Army, could address them.

Moiseev reportedly was en route when a Ukrainian drone arrived overhead, and a HIMARS opened fire. The front line is just 20 miles to the west, around Vuhledar. A HIMARS can lob M30/31 rockets as far as 57 miles.

Video and photos shot by the survivors depict heaps of dead Russians. Reportedly 65 soldiers died, including Musaev. “They lined them up in an open field,” one survivor groused as he recorded the carnage. “Fucking commanders.”

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