The Center for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security in Yavoriv was bombed by military russians, military authorities from the Lviv region advanced in the morning on Telegram. This is one of the places used by the instructors of the nato to train Ukrainian soldiers.
The target of the attack is about 25 kilometers away from the border with Polandwhich reinforces the tension between NATO, a group of which Poland is a part, and Russia.
Understand what the attack represents and what the consequences can be:
Risk of direct conflict between Moscow and NATO
The escalation of conflict with the Western became clearer on Saturday (12), especially after Russia threatened to destroy international arms shipments that reach the Ukraine.
That warning, delivered by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, raises the risk of a direct conflict between Moscow and a NATO country.
Ukraine’s allies, including the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States, are urgently sending thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Kiev in response to Moscow’s aggression
Ryabkov said that Russia “warned the US that the delivery of weapons that it is organizing from various countries is not just a dangerous move, it is an act that makes the respective convoys legitimate targets”, warned Sergei Riabkov in an interview this week. Saturday to the newspaper TV Channel Pervy Kanal.
Sergei Riabkov also claimed that the “security guarantees” requested by Russia from the West, including the guarantee that Ukraine would never join NATO, were no longer valid.
“The situation has completely changed. The question now is to put into practice the goals of our leaders,” he said, referring to the “demilitarization” of Ukraine called for by the Kremlin.
“If the Americans are willing, of course we can resume the dialogue,” he added, specifying that Moscow was ready, in particular, with regard to the START agreements to limit nuclear arsenals. “It all depends on Washington,” he said.
On the other hand, the bombed Ukrainian base is just a few kilometers from the NATO border. If the explosions hit Polish territory, Article 5 of the treaty is clear: “An attack against one member state is an attack against all member states”.
In a first reaction to the attack, the Ukrainian Defense Minister said that “this is a new terrorist attack on peace and security near the border with the European Union/Nato”. On Twitter, the minister again asked for the Ukrainian airspace to be closed.
However, both the European Unionlike the U.S and the United Kingdom continue to reject the hypothesis and do not give any date for taking this step. The reason given is: “NATO is a defensive alliance”.
Russian air strikes on this military base near the northwestern city of Lviv come as Russian forces expand their offensive in western Ukraine.
On Friday (11), the military of Putin first attacked airports in the far west of the country, in Lutsk.
reaction to attack
According to the publication of the head of the authority, Maksym Kozytskyi, more than 30 missiles were fired at the Ukrainian military base.
“The occupiers carried out an air strike on the International Center for the Maintenance of Peace and Security. According to preliminary information, they fired eight missiles. [potenciais] victims,” the Lviv regional administrator said in a statement on Telegram.
The air strike took place around 5:45 am in Kiev. Stepan Chuma, a health worker who was called to the scene, said his entire house vibrated at the time of the bombings. “Even my windows vibrated, the whole sky lit up with two explosions.”
Chuma, who gave a brief interview to The Guardian newspaper, said that “several people were injured”, but so far there is no official confirmation of casualties.
According to Reuters, citing the governor of Lviv, the attack left 35 dead and 57 wounded.
A few hours before this attack, sirens sounded again in Lviv, where an explosion was heard east of the military base.
On Telegram, the military authorities explained that these explosions were the result of the action of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses against missiles launched by the Russian armed forces.
“All military units are fully operational, more information will be communicated by the governor of the region,” said local councilor Igor Zinkevych. In addition to Lviv, Kherson and Ivano-Frankivsk also recorded reports of explosions.
Russia Develops Offensive in Western Ukraine
This attack caused substantial damage to the airport in northwest Ukraine, about 110 kilometers from the Polish border. In Volyn, the region’s governor said four air missiles were fired by the Russian military, leading to the death of two people.
Also on Friday, the military airfield in Ivano-Frankivsk – where explosions were also heard today – was hit by missiles. Lviv is one of Ukraine’s cultural hubs and the historic center of the city is a World Heritage Site. Unesco.
Lviv is, at the moment, a crossing point for thousands of people entering the city to escape the bombings and try to flee to the European Union.
According to the latest figures, 1,675,000 people have already entered Poland.
Source: CNN Brasil
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