| Desna barracks airstrike | |
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 197 Sergeant Training Center A4224 Village of Desna, Chernihiv Oblast. | |
| Type | Airstrike |
| Target |  Ukrainian Ground Forces |
| Date | May 17, 2022 |
| Executed by |  Russian Air Force |
| Casualties | 131 missing and killed |
On 17 May 2022, anairstrike by theRussian Air Force hit amilitary barracks inDesna,Chernihiv Oblast,Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities initially reported that eight people had died and twelve were wounded,[1] but updated the casualty count a week later whenVolodymyr Zelenskyy said that 87 bodies had been recovered.[2][3] Russian officials said that the military had used "high-precision,long-range missiles."[3] It was reportedly the largest single loss of life in the Ukrainian military in theRussian invasion of Ukraine up to that point.[4]
In November 2023, theUkrainian Memory Book Group [uk] reported by name the updated toll of the attack to 63 killed, 68 officially missing and 39 wounded.[5]
experience of our work on the issue of missing persons,..., shows that the vast majority of them are dead, in many cases, even body fragments will not be found, Tynchenko and Shapovalenko note. As an example, they cite the missile attack on the 169th Desna Training Center of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carried out by the Russians on May 17, 2022. As a result of this shelling, 63 servicemen were killed, 39 were wounded, and 68 were officially missing
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