Kyiv, Europe Brief News – A local official said that Russian forces hit missiles at a large Ukrainian base near the border with NATO member Poland on Sunday. He also claimed that this Russian attack has killed almost 35 people leaving 134 wounded on the streets.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said that the airstrike had knocked down a large number of weapons which were supplied to Ukraine by foreign nations. Ukraine was secretly keeping them at the Sprawling training facility.
Shelling Near NATO Border
The attack on the Yavirov International Centre for peacekeeping and Security, a training base just 15 miles from the Polish border that has previously hosted NATO military instructors, brought the conflict to the doorstep of the Western defence Alliance.
Russia’s deputy foreign Minister had warned on Saturday that convoys of western arms shipments to Ukraine could be legitimate targets.
Britain said that the Russian incident marked a significant escalation of the conflict. Jack Sullivan, the White House national security adviser said any attack on NATO territory would trigger a full response by the alliance.
Maksym Kozysky, Regional Governor said that Russian planes fired around 30 rockets at the Yavoriv facility and killed almost 35 innocent civilians.
Igor Konashenkov, Russian defence ministry spokesperson said Russia had used high precision long-range weapons to strike Yavoriv and a separate facility in the village of Starichi.
He further added, “ As a result of the strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large number of foreign weapons were destroyed”.
Violent and Inhuman
As per various reports, More than 2.5 million Ukrainian have fled the country to other neighbouring states to find safer shelter and hundreds of thousands are trapped in besieged cities since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine Human Rights Monitor said, “ Russia used phosphorous bombs in an overnight attack on the town of popasana in the eastern Luhansk region, calling it a war crime”.
Phosporus bombs are subject to use in the war to lighten up the place or knock down the building but deemed illegal to be used in populated area.
Russia denies targeting civilians and blames Ukraine for their poor efforts to evacuate civilians from encircled cities.
Iryna Vereshchuk said, “ More than 140,000 people had been evacuated from conflict zones but a humanitarian convoy had been unable to reach Mariupol due to shelling”.
