Russian strike kills 35 at military facility near Polish border
A Russian airstrike killed 35 people early Sunday morning at a military facility in western Ukraine, miles from the Polish border.
The Lviv Regional Military Administration said at least eight Russian rockets struck a training facility near Yavoriv, a town about 35 miles west of Lviv and 10 miles from the Polish border. The attack could be heard from Lviv.
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Thirty-five people were killed and 134 were wounded, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the regional military administration. It was unclear whether civilians were among the injured.
"Today the Lviv region was hit by missiles, preliminary by jets, stationed in Saratov, Russia, not flying into Ukrainian territory," Kozytskyi said. "Preliminary more than 30 missiles were launched. Anti-missile defense worked, some amount of missiles were shot down. The Yavoriv firing ground came under attack."
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Yavoriv sits along one of the main routes used to bring supplies into Ukraine from Poland, a pathway also used in recent weeks by refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.
The facility struck on Sunday is near the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security, known as the base where for years NATO military instructors, including Americans, trained Ukrainian troops to fight against Russia in the east.
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The administration said earlier on Sunday that nine people were killed and 57 were wounded.
The mayor of Ivano Frankivsk, a southwestern city, also confirmed a strike on the city’s airport early on Sunday. It’s the third such strike, official said.
-ABC News’ Kirit Radia, Julia Drozd, Patrick Reevell and Clark Bentson