{"id":250829,"date":"2022-03-13T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250829"},"modified":"2022-03-14T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:29:10","slug":"at-least-35-killed-in-airstrike-on-military-base-near-lviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250829","title":{"rendered":"At least 35 killed in missile strike on military base near Lviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Guardian \u2013 March 13, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>A rocket attack on a military base near Lviv has killed at least nine people, according to the area\u2019s governor, with fears that more may have died.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maksym Kozytskyy had said that nine people had been killed in airstrikes on the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre military base with 57 wounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(Those casualty figures have since climbed. It is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/13\/russia-widens-attacks-on-ukraine-with-missile-strike-on-base-close-to-polish-border\">estimated that 35 people were killed and over 140 injured<\/a> in the early morning missile strikes. Ed)<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s Luke Harding, who is in Yavoriv where the base is, has spoken to an emergency worker who said the death toll could be as high as 20.<\/p>\n<p>Two large explosions were seen on Sunday at the base in Yavoriv, a garrison city just 12km from the Polish border. The rocket attack took place at 5.45am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy windows shook. The whole house vibrated. It was dark. The sky lit up with two explosions,\u201d said Stepan Chuma, 27, an emergency worker, who hurried to the scene with his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>He said 20 people were confirmed dead. Nineteen ambulances with sirens blaring were seen driving from the direction of the base, a witness said, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>A further seven ambulances were seen driving towards the facility<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, earlier on Sunday Kozytskyy said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia\">Russia<\/a> fired 30 rockets at the complex.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov said foreign military instructors work at the facility, but it was unclear whether any were present when the attack happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/mar\/13\/ukraine-news-russia-war-ceasefire-broken-humanitarian-corridors-kyiv-russian-invasion-live-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskiy-latest-updates-live?page=with:block-622da83a8f08d64fa95eb257-pinned#block-622da83a8f08d64fa95eb257-pinned\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after warning that arms supplies from the West would be considered legitimate targets, Russia launches missile strikes on the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre military base in western Ukraine, 12km from the Polish border<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250834,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250829\/revisions\/250834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}