“These bases will burn. There was already the Yavorovsky training ground, where NATO troops trained... And that’s all. This is an absolutely legitimate goal,” the interlocutor said, answering the question of what kind of reaction from Russia can be expected if the alliance listens to Kyiv’s requests to return to the practice of training in Ukraine and the deployment of repair bases there.
In March 2022, the Russian Armed Forces launched a strike with long-range precision weapons on the training centers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Starichi and at the Yavorovsky military training ground and destroyed up to 180 foreign mercenaries.