Russia recognized the deaths of five investigative officers in the HIMARS strike in Skadovsk: previously, they said "there were no losses". Photo

More than a month after the Ukrainian HIMARS hit the invaders in Skadovsk, the aggressor country of Russia recognized the deaths of a number of officers and soldiers. We are talking about five occupants who were employees of the so-called Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.

This was pointed out by Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazanskyi. He published screenshots of Russian media outlets, where propagandists boasted of the distribution of "medals" to these occupiers.

The blogger recalled how the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, lied about the Russian Armed Forces "repelling" all HIMARS missiles during the strike on November 9. He also said that one missile "fell on the private sector, injuring civilians."

"As is usually the case with the occupiers, they debunked their own lies and admitted the reality," Kazanskyi said.

According to the propagandists, "one missile hit the building of the military investigative committee of the ICR". Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Dmitry Katsuba, Major Dmitry Kataykin, Captain Nikita Kryvtsov, and two junior sergeants Sergey Naumenyuk and Oleg Lebedev died on the spot.

"Several more officers of the military investigation, the Russian Guard and the military police were injured," the Russian edition said.

However, on the second day after the strike, the ASTRA Telegram channel, which positions itself as a media outlet for independent Russian journalists, reported that 10 occupants were killed and 11 were injured. The building at 59 Portova Street, where the invaders and the investigative committee were meeting, was completely destroyed.

As reported by OBOZ.UA, two weeks later, Russia recognized losses as a result of a drone attack on the Black Sea Fleet base in the temporarily occupied Crimea. This is Senior Ensign Denis Nikitin, who was the commander of one of the sunken enemy landing boats.

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