Foreign volunteers killed in Ukraine by a Russian missile, reports the “New York Times”
The New York Times reports that at least a dozen foreign volunteers from the Ukrainian army were killed on July 21 when a Russian missile struck the refectory of a training camp, near the city of Kropyvnytsky, in the center of Ukraine, in one of the deadliest attacks against foreign fighters.
The Ukrainian army, which only recognizes missile strikes on military sites, confirmed that the attack had killed and injured soldiers, but did not give details.
Three soldiers, including a witness to the attack, described an attack which affected recruits notably from the United States, Colombia, Taiwan, Denmark. The strike also set fire to a deposit of ammunition, triggering a series of explosions and projecting debris and bursts of shells while the survivors tried to rescue the wounded.
The Russian army regularly targets the training centers and the regroupings of the Ukrainian army, as in March 2022, in Yavoriv.
In a message on social networks, the 1is July, Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander -in -chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, had prohibited the concentration of personnel and military equipment, as well as the accommodation of soldiers in champs under tents in training centers to protect them against Russian missile strikes.
On May 21, a Russian missile attack killed 6 Ukrainian soldiers and injured more than ten others on a training ground in the Soumy Oblast, northeast of Ukraine. A deadly strike on Soumy on April 13 had left 35 dead and more than 100 injured in the city. She was targeting “The places of a meeting” Military, the Russian army said in a statement.
In the Washington Posta Ukrainian soldier said that he was in the basement of a university building and had to participate in the ceremony when the missiles fell and mowed civilians. The Ukrainian government had approved the dismissal of Volodymyr Artioukh, the head of the regional military administration of Soumy, accused of negligence by certain officials.