Live news: Ukraine says 9 killed in Russian air strike on military base

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Last Updated at March 13, 2022 14:58 IST

Russian's army tanks move down a street on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Live news updates: At least nine people were killed and 57 wounded in a Russian air strike on a large Ukrainian military base near the Polish border on Sunday, local Ukrainian authorities said, in what appeared to be the westernmost attack of the war.

Foreign military instructors have worked in the past at the Yavoriv International Center for Peacekeeping and Security. It was not clear if any were present at the time.

A Ukrainian Defence Ministry representative told Reuters the ministry was still trying to establish if any of the foreign instructors were at the facility at the time of the attack. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a meeting of his senior ministers to review India's security preparedness and geopolitics as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.

Modi said that all possible efforts should be made to bring back the body of Naveen Shekharappa, an Indian student who died during the shelling of Ukraine’s Kharkiv.

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Ukraine says 9 killed in Russian air strike on military base

At least nine people were killed and 57 wounded in a Russian air strike on a large Ukrainian military base near the Polish border on Sunday, local Ukrainian authorities said, in what appeared to be the westernmost attack of the war. Foreign military instructors have worked in the past at the Yavoriv International Center for Peacekeeping and Security. It was not clear if any were present at the time, Reuters reported.

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Air strike launched on Ukraine military base near Polish border

Russia launched an air strike on a Ukrainian military base Yavoriv in the west of the country near the Polish border, local officials said on Sunday, in what appeared to be the westernmost attack of the war. "The occupiers launched an air strike on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security. According to preliminary data, they fired eight missiles," the Lviv regional military administration said in a statement. The military training facility, the biggest in the western part of the country and traditionally the site of joint drills with NATO, is located less than 25 km from the Polish border, Reuters reported.

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