Russian Missiles Strike Ukrainian Military Training Base Near Polish Border
A Russian airstrike killed 35 people at a Ukrainian military training center about 10 miles from the Polish border early Sunday, one day after Moscow warned the West that it would consider arms deliveries to Ukraine as legitimate targets.
Eight missiles hit the facility at Yavoriv, a base where until last month the U.S. National Guard trained Ukrainian troops. U.S. national security adviser
Jake Sullivan
warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would react if a Russian strike were to hit member-state Poland. Such a strike would bring “the full force of the NATO alliance to bear in responding to it,” Mr. Sullivan said in an interview Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
Shortly after the strike, ambulances were seen rushing toward the base, and troops were seen leaving.
Footage on social media showed destroyed buildings and a parade ground strewn with debris, with smoke rising from the ruins. The strike injured more than 130 people and destroyed and damaged some barracks, according to the governor’s office in Lviv.
The Russian strikes could impede what has been a vital lifeline for Ukraine and bring the war perilously close to the country’s border with Poland.
Armaments supplied to Ukraine by the U.S. and its European allies—especially antitank and antiaircraft weapons—have played an important role in checking the advance of Russian ground troops, who have suffered heavy casualties in the north as they have attempted a vast encirclement of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
A bus driver and his son, a doctor, stand in front of a bus damaged in Sunday’s airstrikes at the nearby Yavoriv military complex in western Ukraine.
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A man wounded in the airstrike at Yavoriv received medical assistance Sunday at Novoyavorivsk District Hospital.
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