{"id":46377,"date":"2022-03-13T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/13\/russian-airstrike-hits-base-in-western-ukraine-kills-35\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:54:15","slug":"russian-airstrike-hits-base-in-western-ukraine-kills-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/03\/13\/russian-airstrike-hits-base-in-western-ukraine-kills-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian airstrike hits base in western Ukraine, kills 35"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LVIV, Ukraine \u2014 Waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base near Ukraine\u2019s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 people, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday. The strike followed Russian threats to target foreign weapon shipments that are helping Ukrainian fighters defend their country against&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\">Russia\u2019s grinding assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 30 Russian cruise&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-sports-business-poland-migration-e4ccdd9cf82e868ad8854f6f97cadb27\">missiles targeted<\/a>&nbsp;the sprawling facility that is less than 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the closest border point with Poland, according to the governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/02\/28\/in-one-of-ukraines-cultural-capitals-cafes-are-now-bomb-shelters-and-the-men-wear-fatigues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine\u2019s western Lviv region<\/a>. Poland is a transit route for Western military aid to Ukraine, and the United States increased the number of America troops deployed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/03\/09\/two-army-patriot-missile-batteries-dispatched-to-poland\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4449281.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Two Army Patriot missile batteries dispatched to Poland<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">U.S. European Command said the Patriots would \u201cproactively\u201d counter \u201cany potential threat\u201d to U.S. and NATO forces.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The training base near Yavoriv appears to be the westernmost target struck during Russia\u2019s 18-day invasion. The facility, also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, has long been used to train Ukrainian military personnel, often with instructors from the U.S. and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-andrej-plenkovic-romania-nato-hungary-964f59e35e53bfbba1e8805fd9f64de6\">other NATO countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The base has also hosted international NATO drills and&nbsp;a senior NATO official, Admiral Rob Bauer, previously hailed it as embodying \u201cthe spirit of military cooperation\u201d between Ukraine and international forces. As such, the site symbolizes a longstanding Russian complaint: that the 30-member Western military alliance has expanded in Eastern Europe too close to Russian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Moscow\u2019s stated conditions for ending the hostilities in Ukraine is for the country to drop its ambitions to join NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"7997\" height=\"5331\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22071355627860.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22071355627860.jpg.jpg 7997w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22071355627860.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22071355627860.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22071355627860.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22071355627860.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22071355627860.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 7997px) 100vw, 7997px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A smoke from shelling rises as a wreath of flowers is placed at a cemetery in Vasylkiv south west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 12, 2022. (Vadim Ghirda\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lviv governor Maksym Kozytskyi said most of the Russian missiles fired Sunday \u201cwere shot down because the air defense system worked.\u201d The ones that got through through killed at least 35 people and wounded 134, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO said Sunday that it currently does not have any personnel in Ukraine. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the West would respond if Russia\u2019s armaments travel outside Ukraine and hit any NATO members, even accidentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joe Biden \u201chas been clear, repeatedly, that the United States will work with our allies to defend every inch of NATO territory and that means every inch,\u201d Sullivan said on CBS News\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city of Lviv itself so far has been spared the scale of destruction unfolding to its east and south. Its population of 721,000 has swelled during the war with residents escaping other bombarded population centers and as a waystation for the nearly 2.6 million refugees who fled the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/03\/04\/lviv-is-turning-its-factories-into-improvised-weapon-centers\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Askold-1.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Lviv is turning its factories into improvised weapon centers<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Scores of residents assembled in Lviv\u2019s picturesque old town square devising imaginative ways to defend their city. Some made camouflage nets for the military while others manufactured hundreds of Molotov cocktails.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian and European leaders have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/03\/07\/ukraine-humanitarian-crisis-grows-as-russian-advance-stalls-after-12-days-of-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">pushed with limited success for Russia to grant safe passage to civilians<\/a> trapped by fighting. Ukrainian authorities said more than 10 humanitarian corridors would open Sunday, with agreement from Russia, including from the battered and besieged port city of Mariupol, where authorities say more than 1,500 people have been killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address that a convoy carrying 100 tons of humanitarian aid was on its way to Mariupol, and all necessary diplomatic efforts have been taken to make sure it reaches those in need. Capturing Mariupol and other ports on the Azov Sea could allow Russia to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of failing to honor previous pledges to withhold fire along temporary evacuation routes. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian authorities still have managed to evacuate nearly 125,000 people from areas where hostilities are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/03\/11\/russian-strikes-hit-western-ukraine-as-offensive-widens\/\" target=\"_blank\">continued fighting on multiple fronts<\/a> heaped further misery on the country Sunday and provoked renewed international outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea, authorities reported nine people killed in bombings. Russian forces advancing from Crimea were attempting to circumvent Mykolaiv on what appeared to be a westward push toward the Black Sea port of Odesa, Britain\u2019s Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian fighters also fired at the airport in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, which is less than 150 kilometers (94 miles) north of Romania and 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Hungary, countries that also are NATO allies. The airport, which includes a military airfield as well as a runway for civilian flights, also was targeted Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/03\/11\/russian-invasion-in-ukraine-could-spell-major-shifts-in-the-pacific\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TaiwanTensions2.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Russian invasion in Ukraine could spell major shifts in the Pacific<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Experts weigh in on the wider effects of how events in Ukraine may influence actions in the Pacific.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian authorities said Russian airstrikes on a monastery and a children\u2019s resort in the eastern Donetsk region hit spots where monks and refugees were sheltering, wounding 32 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another airstrike hit a westward-bound train evacuating people from the east, killing one person and injuring another, Donetsk\u2019s chief regional administrator said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the north, in the city of Chernihiv, one person was killed and another injured in a Russian airstrike that destroyed a residential block, emergency services said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around the capital, Kyiv, a major political and strategic target for the invasion, fighting also intensified, with overnight shelling in the northwestern suburbs and a missile strike Sunday that destroyed a warehouse to the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Irpin, a suburb about 12 miles (20 kilometers) northwest of central Kyiv, bodies lay out in the open Saturday on streets and in a park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I woke up in the morning, everything was covered in smoke, everything was dark. We don\u2019t know who is shooting and where,\u201d resident Serhy Protsenko said as he walked through his neighborhood with explosions sounding in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief regional administrator Oleksiy Kuleba said Russian forces appeared to be trying to blockade and paralyze the capital with day and night shelling of the suburbs. Kuleba said Russian agents were in the capital and its suburbs, marking out possible future targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He vowed that any all-out assault would meet stiff resistance, saying: \u201cWe\u2019re getting ready to defend Kyiv, and we\u2019re prepared to fight for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/03\/11\/urban-combat-veterans-share-lessons-for-ukraine-fight\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ukraine-rubble.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Urban combat veterans share lessons for Ukraine fight<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Ukrainians taking a stand may plant seeds for future resistance.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After talks aimed at reaching a cease-fire again failed Saturday, the U.S. announced plans to provide another $200 million to Ukraine for weapons. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned other nations that sending equipment to bolster Ukraine\u2019s military was \u201can action that makes those convoys legitimate targets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy has accused Russia of trying to break his country apart, as well as starting \u201ca new stage of terror\u201d with the alleged detention of a mayor from a city west of Mariupol. He also alleged Saturday that Russians were using blackmail and bribery in an attempt to force local officials in the southern Kherson region to form a \u201cpseudo-republic\u201d like those in the two eastern regions where pro-Russian separatists began fighting Ukrainian forces in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUkraine will stand this test. We need time and strength to break the war machine that has come to our land,\u201d Zelenskyy said during his nightly address to the nation Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy again deplored NATO\u2019s refusal to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine and said Ukraine has sought ways to procure air defense assets, though he didn\u2019t elaborate. NATO has said that imposing a no-fly zone could lead to a wider war with Russia. U.S. President Joe Biden announced another $200 million in aid to Ukraine,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-us-aid-package-41cc2e66c7714b37eca9d2bb8add53aa\">with an additional $13 billion included in a bill<\/a>&nbsp;that has passed the House and should pass the Senate within days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian invaders appear to have struggled more than expected against determined Ukrainian fighters. Still, Russia\u2019s stronger military threatens to grind down Ukrainian forces. Zelenskyy reported Saturday that 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had died since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian forces have hit at least two dozen hospitals and medical facilities, according to the World Health Organization. Ukraine\u2019s Prosecutor General\u2019s office said Sunday that at least 85 children have been killed in the Russian offensive and more than 100 wounded. completely destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Nations has said the fighting has displaced millions of Ukrainians within the country on top of the millions who have left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In some of his strongest denunciations yet of the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis on Sunday decried the \u201cbarbarianism\u201d of the killing of children and other civilians and pleaded for the attacks to end \u201cbefore cities are reduced to cemeteries.\u201d Francis said Mariupol, the southern city which \u201cbears the name\u201d of the Virgin Mary, has \u201cbecome a city martyred by the heartbreaking war that is devastating Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the name of God, I ask: \u2018Stop this massacre,\u2019\u201d Francis said, sparking applause from a crowd of 25,000 gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square, some of whom held Ukrainian flags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov in Mariupol and other reporters around the world contributed.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we know about Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine, March 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