A Russian airstrike on a large Ukrainian military facility near the border with NATO member Poland killed 35 people and wounded 134, a local Ukrainian official said, as other officials reported intense Russian attacks around the country. | Reuters
The 360 sq km facility is one of Ukraine’s biggest and the largest in the western part of the country.
Ukraine, whose aspirations to join NATO are a major irritant to Russian President Vladimir Putin, held most of its drills with countries in the Western defense alliance at the base before the invasion. The last major exercises were in September. Ukraine’s human rights monitor said Russia used phosphorous bombs in an overnight attack on the town of Popasna in the eastern Luhansk region, calling it a “war crime.” She shared a photograph purporting to show the alleged attack but did not say if Ukraine had concrete evidence. Reuters could not immediately verify any of the reports.
Asked how much of an escalation the attack was, British cabinet minister Michael Gove told a BBC interviewer: “It is significant.” Putin was pushing the boundaries in military terms, he said.The mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk, another city in western Ukraine, said Russian troops also continued to hit its airport, with no initial reports of casualties.
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