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📊 Casualties

On September 2023, Ukrainian MP Yuriy Mysiagin reported that 27 Russian soldiers were killed and 34 wounded by their own artillery during a chaotic retreat from Opytne near Donetsk Airport; the incident was later confirmed by Russian milbloggers.

Opytne, Donetsk Oblast
Likely Reported by 2 independent sources
Kyiv Post Censor.NET

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Entities

Yuriy Mysiagin (person) Russian Armed Forces (military_unit) Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport (location) Horlivka (location) Russia (military_unit) Donetsk region (location)

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Russian fighters retreated chaotically from Opytne and were mistakenly fired upon by their own artillery, resulting in 27 dead and 34 wounded.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

One person was wounded in the Horlivka direction and two houses were damaged.

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:57:11.678Z

Source story: 26421