New Delhi, June 10 -- Russia's Vostok battlegroup killed over 455 Ukrainian soldiers in a single day along the eastern front, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday, a claim that arrived the same morning Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missiles struck a defense electronics plant deep inside Russia, and Moscow announced it had shot four of the same weapons down.

the weapon Kyiv used to hit the Votkinsk ballistic missile factory in February and a drone navigation plant in Cheboksary only hours before Wednesday's briefing. Russia's claim to have intercepted four of them in a single day, if true, would represent the highest single-day Flamingo attrition rate Moscow has publicly reported. If not, it fits a pattern of Russian information operat...