Russians attack Ukrainian base in move to attack further west
A military base where the Ukrainian military trained with western militaries suffered Russian bombing attacks. This base is 15 miles from the Polish border. Fighting intensified in other parts of Ukraine.
From Reuters:
The attack on the Yavoriv International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, a base just 15 miles (25 km) from the Polish border that has previously hosted NATO military instructors, came a day after Russia’s deputy foreign minister warned convoys of Western arms shipments to Ukraine could be considered legitimate targets.
Regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy said Russian planes fired around 30 rockets at the facility, adding that some were intercepted before they hit. At least 35 people were killed and 134 wounded, he said. Reuters was not able to verify his statement.
The 360-square km (140-square mile) facility is one of Ukraine’s biggest and is the largest in the western part of the country.
Nineteen ambulances with sirens on were seen by Reuters driving from the direction of the Yavoriv base and black smoke rose from the area.
Britain said the incident marked a “significant escalation” of the conflict. U.S. President Joe Biden has said NATO would defend every inch of its territory if Russia’s invasion spills over into member states of the Western defence alliance.
The Kremlin did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the reported missile strike so close to the border with NATO, and a short video briefing by Russia’s defence ministry spokesman on Sunday made no mention of such an attack.
While Western nations have sought to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin by imposing harsh sanctions, the United States and its allies are concerned to avoid NATO being drawn into the conflict. “There are no NATO personnel in Ukraine,” the NATO official said, when asked if any NATO personnel were at the base.
Reuters has more details at this link.
Just Vlad toying with NATO & Biden.
News report said 22 of the 30 rockets were taken out by air defense. Guess that’s a positive.
I see the pic of that truck with the logs stacked up in the rear so I’ll just not say anything. That ok Ed.?????
Good idea to stick with not barking up that tree and leaf that hanging, Jeff. I’ll go out on a limb and say that you wood be stumped to come up with anything not nailed and made plane when you branched off in the other thread. Make yourself useful, run down to the Stuckey’s and pick us up some of the Pecan Nut Log Rolls. And quit yer birching.
Sure as God made little Green Apples, right after Putin goads NATO into doing something, he will commit his Class A Formations, ChiComs will hit Taiwan, the Norks will pop nukes on Guam and Oki and another over CONUS. We know the sh^t got real when Iran lobs something in the direction of Israel. Here comes the end…Here comes the end…Here comes the end of the World. Feels like October of 1973 again.
Couldn’t leaf it alone?
I was gonna laud him for the personal growth but I lumbered too long.
That’s what I get for being busy as a beaver.
Mimosa time!
Well, Iran rained a few missiles on us targets in Iraq overnight. That’s kinda near Israel.
STOP!! I can’t take any more! Just put a stake through my heart and end it!
WOOD YOU knock it off so I can go lay back down on the couch and saw some logs?
I just got twiggered
Or October ’62…
That’s reasonable actually. Definitely more of a military target than a children’s hospital. 🙄
When Putin invariably takes some of these strikes into Poland, Romania, Hungary, or the Baltic states, is NATO/Biden going to send an even more strongly worded letter?
You think this is like a kids video game on easy level.
How about a captured or black market stinger takes out a C-17 landing at Ramstein with a 100 82d airborne on it?
You think that will send a message about shipping arms into Ukraine?
I bet the Russians were laughing at me in Afghanistan in 2003 driving around in a Ford Ranger with sandbags on the floor and Afghan pig iron welded to the doors.