Is the Russian attack on the Yavoriv base a provocation against NATO?
Dead and wounded after the Russian attack on the Yavoriv base, 20 kilometers from Poland (a NATO member country). The facts, the Agi point and the comment by Rid (Italian Defense Magazine)
The attack on Yavoriv, about twenty kilometers from the Polish border, which in September hosted an exercise with NATO. Damage also to a nearby air base. For the governor, 30 rockets were launched. London: significant escalation. The Ukrainian Minister of Defense returns to ask for the No Fly Zone. Another mayor in the Zhaporizhzhia region kidnapped.
These are the latest news from Ukraine according to an update by the Agi agency directed by Mario Sechi at 5 pm on March 13th.
According to the Lviv administration, there are currently 35 dead after the Russian attack on the military base of Yavoriv, in Ukrainian territory almost on the border with Poland.
“The Russians bomb the Yavoriv training center. Objective: foreign volunteers and western weapons ”, is the comment of Rid , the Italian defense magazine directed by Pietro Batacchi.
Russian military killed 180 "foreign mercenaries" in attacks on Staritchi and the Yavoriv military base on the border with Poland, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konachenkov said in a briefing.
The Russian-hit center in northwestern Ukraine is not a secondary base: the Yavoriv Training Center is on the border with Poland, from which it is 15-20 kilometers away as the crow flies. Poland is a NATO country: it does not take much imagination to imagine the consequences of a "mistake" of a few kilometers in the launch of missiles. For this reason, there are those who speak – according to some analysts – of a warning mixed with provocation by Moscow to NATO.
According to the base's website, the IPSC was established in 2007 and is a training facility for the Ukrainian armed forces, in particular for peacekeeping and counter-terrorism missions. But there is another site, much more interesting: it is that of NATO, where there is a document (a series of slides) that speak precisely of this base, writes the A gi ,
The document states that Ukrainian and other military soldiers are trained in mine clearance at the Ipsc. The BBC states that the base is one of two in Ukraine where international military exercises take place.
But there is more: the base, which is officially called the International Center for Peace and Security (Ipsc, in the acronym in English), is the military base where the Ukrainian military exercises were held in September in coordination with the Born, Rapid Trident – 2021, maneuvers that went on until 1 October.
In the military maneuvers, just as Russia and Belarus were holding the large-scale exercises that alarmed the West, 4,000 Ukrainian and 2,000 foreign soldiers participated. Even in recent days foreign military instructors were at the Yavoriv base: the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, announced on Twitter, accusing Moscow of carrying out a "terrorist attack".
(article updated at 5 pm on March 13, 2022)
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/yavoriv-provocazione-nato/ on Sun, 13 Mar 2022 10:45:20 +0000.