Russia has confirmed the deadly attack launched on Sunday morning near Lviv, Ukraine. According to Reuters reports, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on the Ukrainian base in Yavoriv, near Lviv.
According to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konachenkov, gunfire destroyed a training center for foreign fighters as well as a storage site for weapons and military equipment delivered to Ukraine.
A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said the attack neutralized up to 180 "foreign mercenaries" and "large quantities" of weaponry.[/B] Moscow, according to the same spokesman, stressed that it will continue these attacks against foreign mercenaries.
"The neutralization of foreign mercenaries arriving in Ukraine will continue," he added.
These strikes are the work of "long-range high-precision weapons," Igor Konachenkov added, without giving further details.
The attack came a day after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow considered convoys of Western arms shipments to Ukraine legitimate targets.
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