Putin hits Western military aid to Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin climbed this Sunday one more rung of the ladder to

and involve other actors in the conflict caused by his unilateral aggression, by attacking the Russian army, with

one of the main military training center in the west of the country, that of Yavoriv, ​​killing 35 people and wounding another 134.

The base, called the International Center for the Maintenance of Peace and Security, with an area of ​​360 square kilometers and located

already a NATO country, has regularly hosted exercises by the Ukrainian army together with commands from other of countries of the Atlantic Alliance -for the last time last September-.

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Not only that: Anglo-Saxon media, including

speculate on the possibility that at the moment it was being used both to

presided over by Volodimir Zelensky, and for the training of volunteers that Ukraine is training forced marches to repel the Russian attack.

Hours before the attack, the Kremlin had advanced that it declared

any means of Western aid to the country that Putin has invaded, and which is mercilessly bombing its eastern and central areas, a

The launch of the missiles and the massacre in Yavoriv, ​​whose number of victims was not yet finalized at the close of this edition, which gives an idea of ​​the devastation caused by the impacts, seems to respond to this logic: try to point out those who can help Ukraine to face the invader, who even with a power of means vastly superior to the invaded one, for the moment is needing the melee to advance, and even so it is costing him.

One more step up the climb

The attack, which took place at 5:45 a.m. this Sunday, and in which the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses managed to repel up to fifteen missiles in the air, was in any case one more step in what military experts call the escalation of the conflict:

a base where the countries of the Alliance have carried out exercises, and which could now be serving as a supply for the Kiev regime.

By the way, Putin also sought with this movement, on the one hand,

, which goes hand in hand with Ukraine and as a hinge with the West in this crisis -one of the Russian president's obvious objectives is to prevent the Ukrainian approach to the Western democracies, to prevent similar vagaries in Russia itself - and, on the other hand,

until now practically intact and leading a normal life, in contrast to the brutal punishment that the rest of the country is receiving.

Thus, the Russian offensive took place, when we entered the nineteenth day of the invasion,

the cultural capital of Ukraine and undoubtedly its great least pro-Russian city, in whose historic center, World Heritage of Humanity, the inhabitants

and where the feeling is penetrating that, sooner or later, the horror that the rest of the country is experiencing will end up arriving.

Russia has been warning, slowly but surely, in recent days, Lviv: first it attacked the city of Lutsk, to the north, then Ivano-Frankivsk, to the south (and close to Moldavia), and now Yavoriv, ​​to the east, along to Poland.

Putin is marking the territory that for him makes up, as he has been expressing unequivocally in recent years, what should be

a country that he wants to be neutral at best, and that he was seeing, since before the Maidan revolt in 2014,

and Western democracies, away from the authoritarianism emanating from Moscow.

The Russian media, moreover, had repeatedly pointed to the Yavoriv base as a covert NATO facility on Ukrainian soil, an accusation that has always been denied by Kiev.

What is more plausible, according to Anglo-Saxon media, is that the place was being used by Ukraine to

that the United States and the European Union are providing to the Government of Volodimir Zelensky, whose requests for help to the international community have an increasingly desperate tone.

The strategy of escalation carried out by Putin is viewed with concern in the West, which has to measure its steps to the millimeter so as not to give the Kremlin what international observers believe it is looking for:

mass escape

In the southwest of Ukraine, Russian bombardments destroyed this Sunday "totally", according to its mayor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the city of Volnovakha (21,000 inhabitants), in the area near

whose inhabitants have fled en masse and which would have been

In its

Mariupol (445,000 inhabitants) continues to show, according to satellite images cited by various media, a significant degree of material destruction, with already

by Russian attacks, which was even worth an appeal from the Pope this Sunday Francis for Moscow to

and the "unacceptable armed attack in Ukraine".

Kiev also denounced internationally that Russia not only bombs civilian areas, but also

to the most attacked areas: it was claimed, for example, that a humanitarian convoy sent to Mariupol from Zaporizhia was blocked for more than five hours at a

Russian.

It must be remembered that the inhabitants of Mariupol, a port city located on the Sea of ​​Azov, have spent practically these 12 days of Numantine resistance

and serious food shortages -which has caused conflicts between the population -, in a situation that according to Doctors Without Borders precedes

The Turkish government asked Russia this Sunday for help to be able

in the place, and the Kremlin itself had no qualms about admitting, through the mouth of General Mihail Mizintsev, that "in some [Ukrainian cities attacked by the Russian army] the situation has reached catastrophic proportions", attributing, however, the responsibility to "Ukrainian nationalists", and ignoring that it is Russia that is causing the damage according to all parties except the Kremlin.

Moscow also assured, without providing proof of this, that

have died so far in the invasion.

Two people also died in

(990,000 inhabitants), a city that patiently awaits the assault of the Russian army stationed in neighboring Mikolaiv, 100 kilometers to the east, and where an AFP journalist recorded damage to two health centers caused by Russian bombing.

And around Kiev, the capital, attacks by Putin's army continued with the aim of

when the Russian invasion of Ukraine is heading towards its

on a clear upward slope.

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