LVIV, Ukraine (Washington Insider Magazine) – 35 people were killed as rounds of Russian missiles struck a military training camp near Ukraine’s western frontier with NATO member Poland. Russian threats to strike international weapons shipments that are assisting Ukrainian fighters in defending their nation against Russia’s relentless assault prompted the strike.
According to the governor of Ukraine’s western Lviv region, well over 30 Russian ballistic missiles targeted the huge training complex, which is fewer than 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the nearest border point with Poland. Poland is an important transit point for Western military supplies to Ukraine.
Lviv had been largely spared the extent of carnage unfolding farther east since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and had become a refuge for civilians fleeing battered areas and many of the approximately 2.6 million refugees who had left the area, according to ABC NEWS.
Thus far in the 18-day attack, the training complex in Yavoriv looks to be the primary westward target. The International Peacekeeping and Security Center, as it is often called, has often been used to educate Ukrainian military troops, with trainers from the U.S. as well as other NATO nations frequently present.
International NATO drills have also been held there. As a result, the location reflects a long-standing Russian grievance: that NATO’s 30 member nations are pushing closer and closer to Russia’s borders. Russian officials have requested that Ukraine abandon its plans to join NATO.
Most of the missiles launched Sunday were shot out of the sky by the air defense system, according to Lviv Governor Maksym Kozytskyi. According to him, those who made it past killed at least 35 individuals and injured 134 others.
Overnight, fighting erupted in several parts of the country. According to Ukrainian officials, Russian strikes on a monastery and a family resort in the eastern Donetsk area injured 32 persons, including monks and refugees.
According to Donetsk’s top regional administrator, another airstrike struck a westward-bound train transporting passengers from the east, killing 1 person and wounding another.
One individual was killed and the other was wounded in a Russian airstrike that demolished a residential block in Chernihiv, according to emergency services.
Violence increased around Kyiv, the capital and a major geostrategic objective for the invasion, with nighttime bombardment in the northwestern regions and a missile attack to the east on Sunday destroying a warehouse.
On Saturday, bodies lie out in the open on streets and in a park in Irpin, a suburb approximately 12 miles (20 kilometers) northwest of central Kyiv.
The United States revealed intentions to donate another $200 million to Ukraine for firearms after talks to achieve a cease-fire failed again on Saturday. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, cautioned other countries that delivering supplies to help Ukraine’s forces makes those convoys valid targets.
