The Russian war in Ukraine gets closer, every day, to the borders of the European Union and NATO. At eighteenth day of invasiona series of missile attacks on military installations Ukrainians, launched by the Russian armyaffected this Sunday the province of Lviv (Lviv)in the west of the country, near the border with Poland, a country that is also a member of the Atlantic Alliance. At least 35 people have died and more than a hundred have been injured as a result of those attacks, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Starting at half past three in the morning, the time when the anti-aircraft sirens also went off again in the city of Lviv, the Russian attack sowed panic again among the population. Many went down to the shelters, while others – especially the women and the elderly, who are not obliged to stay in the country, began to seriously consider leaving Ukraine. And it is that, just as Moscow had threatened the day before, when he announced that he would consider a “legitimate objective & rdquor; any military support to Ukraine from outside its borders, the attack affected a military base located in the town of Yávorivto some 15 kilometers in a straight line of the border with Poland and about 50 kilometers from Lviv, a Ukrainian city that until now had been considered “safe.”
foreign instructors
Specifically, the attack was directed at the so-called International Center for Peace and Security (IPSC, for its acronym in English), which, according to statements by the Russian authorities collected by the agencies of that country, was not only used to store weapons from other countries, but also for the foreign volunteer training. Information that was, in part, confirmed by the Ukrainian government. “Russia attacked the International Center for Peace and Security near Lviv. Foreign instructors work here & rdquor ;, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in a tweet.
“This is a new terrorist attack against peace and security near the borders with NATO and the European Union & rdquor ;, Reznikov added, calling again on Western countries and NATO to close Ukraine’s airspace to weaken the Russian offensive. “Until 180 foreign mercenaries and its training centers, as well as a large batch of foreign weaponshave been destroyed in military installations in the Lviv region,” said the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, who gave a different figure from the Ukrainian regarding the number of deaths. For his part, sources of the Ukrainian Government could not confirm to this journalist the nationality of the deceased.
US warnings
In any case, the attack comes after, already on Friday, the Russian offensive intensifies in the west of the countrywith attacks on Ivano-Frankivsk and in Lutsk, where there is also a military airport. Something that has made some analysts believe that Moscow has decided cut off shipments of arms and medicine from the west to Kiev, as well as to the east and south of the country, where the martyred Mariupol It has suffered a dramatic siege for days. So much so that the Ukrainian president himself, Volodymyr Zelensky, stressed again that the situation of the civilians trapped there is desperate. “They even block (the work) of the priests of the Orthodox Church who accompany a shipment with food, water and medicine,” said Zelenski, in a new public intervention.
The United States wanted, for its part, to make it clear that if a Russian missile or bomb fell, even by mistake, on any NATO member country, the Alliance “would respond & rdquor ;, according to the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, not to mention the case of the Yároriv base. Furthermore, Sullivan stated that The US will ignore Moscow’s threats and will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine. “We believe that we will be able to continue sending substantial amounts of military assistance and weapons to the front lines to help the Ukrainians ensure that Ukraine is a strategic failure for PutinSullivan assured in statements to the American television network CNN.
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In this warmongering climate contaminated by propaganda, the UN confirmed that a total of 596 Ukrainian civilians have died and 1,067 have been injured from the beginning of the Russian invasion; figures that differ from those announced by the Kiev government (as is also the case with the number of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killed in the fighting). A dance of figures which the population is also beginning to suspect.
“Perhaps they do it to keep people’s morale high, or as a strategy before the world & rdquor ;, said Andrei, a resident of Kiev, referring to the authorities of his country. Even so, the Ukrainian government has once again spoken of common pits in which dozens of people have had to be buried due to the lack of time and space to give a decent burial to those who fell in war. A snapshot, this one, which in recent days was corroborated by several photographs from the scene.