Russia claims to have destroyed a warehouse full of Western military aid

Russian missiles hit a military depot in western Ukraine, injuring nearly two dozen people, the governor of Ukraine’s Ternopil region said on Sunday.

He did not say if the military equipment was damaged, but the Russian Defense Ministry said the attack was destroyed. anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems supplied to Ukraine by the United States and the European Union.

Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the ministry, said the attack, which took place on Saturday night in the city of Chortkiv, was also destroyed. portable anti-aircraft systems and artillery shells.

Volodymyr Trush, the regional governor of Ternopil, which includes Chortkiv, said Russian forces fired four missiles from the Black Sea and also destroyed four five-story buildings.

Trush said 22 people, including one child, were injured, but the injuries were not considered life-threatening.

In a statement in the messaging application TelegramTrush said there had been a fire due to a gas leak caused by the attack, but did not investigate whether weapons were hit.

At the request of the Ukrainian government, the United States, Great Britain, EU states and other nations have funneled billions of dollars worth of military equipment and aid to Ukraine to help fight the invasion From Russia.

Since their full-scale invasion began in February, Russian forces have routinely attacked warehouses, railways and other infrastructure in an effort to destroy Ukrainian arms supplies and prevent them from reaching the front lines.

While most of the fighting took place in eastern Ukraine, Russia launched several major attacks in the west, often using missiles launched from its naval fleet hundreds of miles away in the Black Sea.

In the deadliest of these, Russia killed at least 35 people in a March attack on a military base 18 kilometers from Ukraine’s border with Poland.

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