35 killed in airstrike on military training complex in western Ukraine, official says
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Source: CBC
Russian missiles pounded a military base in western Ukraine on Sunday in an attack that a local official said killed 35 people. The barrage on the facility, which has served as a crucial hub for co-operation between Ukraine and the NATO countries supporting its defence, marked an escalation of Moscow's offensive and moved the fighting perilously close to the Polish border.
The attack so close to a NATO member-country raised the spectre that the alliance could be drawn into the fight and was heavy with symbolism in a conflict that has revived old Cold War rivalries and threatened to rewrite the current global security order.
More than 30 Russian cruise missiles targeted the sprawling facility, which has long been used to train Ukrainian soldiers, often with instructors from the U.S. and other countries in the Western alliance.
Poland is also a transit route for Western military aid to Ukraine, and the strikes followed Moscow's threats to target those shipments.
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