March 13 (Reuters) – Russia said on Sunday it had attacked the Yavoriv military base in western Ukraine, adding that the strike killed “up to 180 foreign mercenaries” and destroyed a large stockpile of weapons supplied by the stranger.
Spokesman for Russian Defense Minister Igor Konashenkov told a briefing that Russia would continue its attacks against what he called foreign mercenaries.
Reuters could not independently verify these statements.
The Ukrainian governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyy, said 35 people were killed and 134 injured in the attack.
(Report David Ljunggren, French version Juliette Jabkhiro)