Weapons supplied to Ukraine go up in smoke. The Russian army announced on Sunday that it had struck a site housing weapons supplied by Westerners near Tchortkiv, in western Ukraine largely spared from the fighting. 22 people were injured according to kyiv, including civilians.
In a statement, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that “Kalibr cruise missiles launched from the sea (…) destroyed near Chortkiv a large warehouse of anti-tank missile systems, man-portable air defense systems and weapons. ‘shells supplied to the kyiv regime by the United States and European countries’.
The Russian army did not specify when the strike took place, but according to local Ukrainian authorities, a strike on this small town in the west of the country on Saturday evening left at least 22 injured, including civilians, and partially destroyed a military site.
“Seven women and a 12-year-old child” injured
« [Samedi]at 9:46 p.m. local time [20h46 à Paris, NDLR], Chortkiv was hit by four missiles, all fired from the Black Sea,” regional governor Volodymyr Trouch told a press conference broadcast on Facebook. He specified that “there were 22 wounded, all hospitalized”. Among the victims, “there are seven women and a 12-year-old child,” continued the governor. According to him, “a military installation was partially destroyed” in the strike, “and residential homes were damaged”.
Chortkiv, which had just under 30,000 inhabitants before the Russian offensive, is 140 km north of the border with Romania and 200 km south-east of Lviv, a large city in western Ukraine.
Unlike the east and south of the country, heavily affected by fighting between Ukrainian and Russian armies for three and a half months, the west has only very occasionally been the target of Russian strikes, which notably target installations there. soldiers receiving Western weapons.