Prior to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the facility hosted NATO drills and U.S. troops used it to train Ukrainian forces.
"Russia has attacked the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security near Lviv," Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine's defense minister,on Twitter."Foreign instructors work here. Information about the victims is being clarified. This is a new terrorist attack on peace and security near the E.U.-NATO border."
Russia's strike on the Ukrainian base—believed to be the closest Russian missiles have come to the border of a NATO member thus far—hit a day after MoscowNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenbergin a recent interview that he would see any Russian attack on supply lines of countries providing weapons to Ukraine—which is not a NATO member—as a dangerous escalation.
"Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine is defending itself. If there is any attack against any NATO country, NATO territory, that will trigger Article 5," Stoltenberg added, referring to the NATO treaty's self-defense clause.another $200 million in arms and equipment for Ukraine, a package that reportedly includes Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.
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