Russian missile hits Ukrainian training unit, killing and wounding servicemen
The Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that a Russian missile strike struck a military training unit, causing a number of victims.
Ukrainian land forces said late Tuesday that three members of service personnel had been killed and 18 had been injured.
The army did not say where the training ground was, although a Ukrainian war journalist Andrei Taplienko, said that it was in the Chernihiv region north of kyiv who borders Russia and Belarus.
The Russian Defense Ministry published a video of what it claimed was a strike of an ISKANDER ballistic missile in a wooded area that involved more than 20 cluster explosions.
The video could not be immediately verified, but the Russian mod affirmed that the number of Ukrainian victims was much higher than the Ukrainian soldiers had indicated. There has been no other army word since late Tuesday.
“Despite the security measures taken, unfortunately it was not possible to completely avoid losses between the staff,” Ukraine’s land forces said in a social media statement.
This is the third Russian attack on a Ukrainian training unit in just over two months.
An Iskander missile attack against a camp in the northern border region of Sumy killed six soldiers in May and another strike killed 12 people and injured 60 other months last.
The protection of Ukrainian troops on the exercises is particularly sensitive for the military, who said that it would investigate whether the “actions or inaction of civil servants” had resulted in deaths or injuries during the missile strike on Tuesday evening.
The commander of terrestrial forces Mykhailo Dracatyi resigned after the deadly attack last month, saying that the victims had been “young guys from a training battalion” and that most of them were in shelters at the time.
