TRUSKAVETS, Ukraine—Russian and Ukrainian officials have offered contrasting accounts of the casualties incurred by the missile attack on a military training facility in Yavoriv, Ukraine, on March 13. Hours after the aerial strike, the governor for the region said 35 people were killed and 134 were wounded. A spokesperson for the Lviv Regional Administration told The Epoch Times on March 14 that according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, no foreigners were killed in the attack. The Russian Defense Ministry offered a starkly different account roughly 13 hours after the attack, claiming that a “high-precision long-range weapon” had killed “up to 180 foreign mercenaries.” “A number of Western countries at the state level encourage the participation of their citizens as mercenaries of Ukraine in hostilities against units of the Russian troops. All responsibility for the death of this category of foreign citizens in Ukraine lies on just the leadership of these …
Russia, Ukraine at Odds Over Casualties of Strike on Yavoriv Training Base
March 14, 2022
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