The site targeted by Russian strikes on Saturday to Sunday night was not chosen by chance. Associated with NATO until the triggering of the war, it served from a delivery platform of military equipment to Ukraine.
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The bombing of Yavoriv’s Ukrainian military base is similar to a serious warning of Russia to Westerners, anxious not to go to war against Moscow, while supporting Kiev as much as possible. The strikes on Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 March did at least 35 dead, according to the Ukrainian authorities – 180 affirmed the Russians – on this site located about twenty kilometers from Poland. The chosen moment and the targeted place must nothing at random.
The bombing occurred shortly after the United States and Europe indicated to reflect on new penalties and want to strengthen their arms deliveries, to help Ukrainian resistance to face the Russian army. Washington has decided Saturday to abound $ 200 million (€ 183 million) its military assistance. The day before, gathered at Versailles, the twenty-seven had agreed to double – to bring it to one billion euros – the envelope devoted to the financing of lethal weapons provided by the Member States of the Member States European Union to Ukraine.
These deliveries, which do not in principle do not make Westerners of the cobelligerents, were repeatedly denounced these last days by Moscow. In an interview with the television channel Pervi Kanal, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister had thus declared a few hours before the strikes: “We warned the United States that the delivery of weapons they have been orchestrating from a number Country is not just a dangerous gesture, it is an act that makes convoys mentioned with legitimate targets. “He had then mentioned portable air defense systems and anti-extent missile systems. Thursday, March 10, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, had already warned: “Those gorging as weapons Ukraine must understand that they will take responsibility for their actions.” Mr. Lavrov had in passing the Deliveries like “dangerous” and removed the recruitment of foreign “mercenaries”. Volunteers who are now part of the major victims of Yavoriv’s base bombardment, which clearly served to group some of them.
A tool for NATO
The bombed site is all the more sensitive as it housed, at least until the triggering of the conflict, a training and training center of NATO. One of the sixteen that the Atlantic Alliance has developed in so-called “partners” as Moldova, Serbia or Sweden. It was also one of the most important.
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