35 killed 134 injured in Russian air strike on Ukraine military base
Waves of Russian missiles struck a military training base near Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 and wounding 134. The strike followed Russian threats targeting foreign arms shipments that are helping Ukrainian fighters defend their country against Russia’s grinding invasion.
According to the governor of Ukraine’s West Lviv region, more than 30 Russian cruise missiles targeted a training facility spread less than 25 kilometers from the nearest border point with Poland.
The training center in Yavoriv is also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, and has long been used to train Ukrainian military personnel, often with instructors from the United States and other NATO countries.
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Lviv Governor Maxim Kozitsky said most of the missiles fired on Sunday were shot down “due to the working of the air defense system.” He said at least 35 people were killed and 134 were injured among those who crossed.
Fighting also went on in many areas of the country throughout the night. Ukrainian authorities said Russian airstrikes on a monastery and a children’s resort in the eastern Donetsk region where monks and refugees were taking refuge, wounding 32 people.
Donetsk’s chief regional administrator said another airstrike hit a westbound train, evacuating people from the east, killing one person and injuring another.
Around the capital, a major political and strategic target for the invasion, fighting also intensified, with overnight shelling in the northwestern suburbs and a missile attack on Sunday destroying a warehouse in the east.
Zelensky again declined NATO’s declaration of a no-fly zone over Ukraine and said Ukraine had sought ways to buy air defense assets, although he did not elaborate. we.
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President Joe Biden announced another $200 million in aid to Ukraine, including an additional $13 billion in a bill that has been passed by the House and should pass the Senate within days. NATO has said that imposing a no-fly zone could lead to a wider war with Russia.
“Significant progress” in post-conflict talks with Ukraine; Russia
MOSCOW: Russia said on Sunday that negotiators were in talks to resolve the fighting in Ukraine, more than two weeks after President Vladimir Putin ordered its forces along the borders of its pro-Western neighbour.
Leonid Slutsky, a senior member of Russia’s negotiating team, told state television network RT that “significant progress” had been made after several rounds of talks held on the border with neighboring Belarus.
“If we compare the position of both delegations at the beginning of the talks and now, we see significant progress,” he told the network, according to Russian news agencies.
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“I have my own hopes that this progress can develop into a unified situation in the next few days in the documents signed by both delegations,” the agencies said, citing them.
Turkey hosted the first meeting between Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers this week.
Earlier on Sunday, Mikhailo Podolik, a senior adviser to Ukraine and aide to the president, wrote on Twitter that Russia has stopped issuing “ultimatums” and instead “listens carefully to our positions”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Russia had taken a “fundamentally different approach” to the talks.
35 killed 134 injured in Russian air strike on Ukraine military base
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