About 200 people gathered in the Russian city of Samara on Tuesday to hold a vigil for soldiers killed by a Ukrainian rocket strike in Makiivka, eastern Donetsk, on New Year's Eve. Mourners laid wreaths and roses in Samara's central square, while priests recited prayers for the dead. 
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Moscow said 89 of its troops were killed by the strike, the largest military loss Russia has admitted from a single Ukrainian attack. Lt Gen Sergei Sevryukov said Russia believed the location of the troops was given away by mass use of mobile phones. 
'This factor allowed the enemy to track and determine the coordinates of the soldiers' location for a missile strike,' he said in a video statement. Ukraine put the casualty figure much higher, claiming the strike killed at least 400 troops.

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