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A Russian missile assault on a army coaching heart in Ukraine final week killed 87 individuals in what seems to be the only deadliest assault since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Monday.

The Might 17 assault occurred within the village of Desna, in Ukraine’s Chernihiv area, north of the capital metropolis of Kyiv. Russian forces fired 4 missiles on the army coaching heart from an plane, placing the bottom’s barracks, in line with reviews. Native authorities mentioned on the time that there have been lifeless and wounded, however the true scale of the devastation solely got here to mild on Monday.

“The clearance of particles in Desna within the Chernihiv area has been accomplished. 87 lifeless. And these had been solely 4 missiles,” Zelensky mentioned in his nightly tackle Monday.

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The Ukrainian president added that because the Russian invasion, the nation has withstood 1000’s of airstrikes, and he pleaded for anti-missile protection techniques from Western nations.

“In complete, since February 24, the Russian military has launched 1,474 missile strikes at Ukraine, utilizing 2,275 totally different missiles. The overwhelming majority was geared toward civilian objects. In lower than three months, there have been greater than 3,000 air strikes by Russian plane and helicopters. What different nation has withstood such a scale of strikes?”

“Each time we inform our companions that we’d like fashionable anti-missile weapons, fashionable fight plane, we aren’t simply making a proper request. We are saying that our request is the actual lives of many individuals who wouldn’t have died if we had acquired all of the weapons we’re asking for,” the Ukrainian president mentioned.

Zelensky didn’t say whether or not all these killed within the Desna strike had been army personnel.

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The Russian Ministry of Protection mentioned on the day after the assault that “high-precision, long-range, and ground-based missiles destroyed enemy reserves that had been finishing fight coordination at coaching facilities in Desna and one other location.”

The Desna assault is harking back to a Russian missile strike in March that focused a army coaching base in western Ukraine. The March 13 missile assault on the Yavoriv base killed a minimum of 35 individuals, in line with Ukrainian officers.