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Russian Lieutenant General Sergei Sevryukov says that the use of cellphones by soldiers despite a ban led to a deadly strike on New Year's Eve on Makiivka, where the military suffered heavy losses. The toll from the Ukrainian strike on the Russian-controlled city in eastern Ukraine has risen to 89.
Russia on Monday said more than 60 soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian strike on Russian-controlled territory in a bloody New Year's weekend for both sides of the conflict. Kyiv took responsibility for the strike which it said took place in the occupied city of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine on December 31. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Philip Turle tells us more.
Ukrainian troops continue to resist in Bakhmut. Meanwhile the Russian paramilitary Wagner group says its fighters are near the centre
Father Taras Mykhalchuk celebrates the funeral service of two Ukrainian servicemen, Oleg Muzhkevych and Valery Dianov, killed during combat with Russian troops, at the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church in Lviv. Since the beginning of the war, Father Taras Mykhalchuk has been conducting servicemen's funerals every day.